TEST ON LEAF LARD RENDERED INTO NEUTRAL.

Raw leaves8,958pounds at$ 0.08¹⁄₈per pound= $727.84
Salt for settling35pounds at4.90per ton= .09
$727.93
Production:
Neutral lard7,880pounds at$0.09125per pound=$718.96
Neutral bottoms1,055pounds
(Run under forty pounds pressure two and one-half hours.)
Prime steam lard497pounds at0.082per pound=40.75
Tankage56pounds at18.00per ton=.45
$760.16
Gain on production$ 32.23
Gain per 100 pounds on raw weight, $0.036.
Percentage Production:
Neutral lard to raw weight87.97
Neutral bottoms to raw weight11.78
Prime steam lard to raw weight5.55
Tankage to raw weight.63
Prime steam lard to weight of bottoms47.11
Tankage to weight of bottoms5.31
Total production of lards93.52
Total production of raw weights94.15
Tanking Leaf Lard:
Raw leaves1,000pounds at$ 0.08125per pound= $ 81.25
Prime steam lard929pounds at0.0825per pound= 76.18
Tankage5pounds at18.00per ton
Loss on production$  5.07
Loss per pound on raw weight.0051
Prime steam lard to raw weight, per cent, 92.9.

Test—Chilling and Tanking.

TEST ON CHILLED LEAF LARD TO DETERMINE VALUE AND YIELD.

Warm leaf lard to cooler1,000 lbs.
Chilled leaf lard986 lbs.
Shrinkage, 1.4 per cent14 lbs.
Weight to test tank, 986 pounds; value per cwt., $7,556.
Yield prime steam lard94.12per cent;928lbs. at$8.025per cwt.$74.47
Yield tankage (pressed) .81per cent;8lbs. at9.89per ton.04
Total$74.51

Test.

—Showing manipulation of 5,000 pounds of back fat to make neutral, kettle rendered lard and pure steamed lard:

TEST ON 5,000 POUNDS OF BACK FAT CONVERTED TO NO. 2 NEUTRAL KETTLE RENDERED LARD AND PRIME STEAM LARD.

Net wt.
lbs.
Per
cent.
Back fat5,000
Less skins removed586=11.72
Skinned back fat rendered to No. 2 neutral4,414
Production No. 2 neutral1,846=41.82
Bottoms left in kettle2,568
Bottoms from No. 2 neutral rendered to kettle rendered lard2,568
Stearine added270=10.51
Total2,838
Production of kettle rendered lard from above1,940=68.36
Bottoms from No. 2 neutrals898
Kettle rendered bottoms673
Loss on production225
Bottoms from kettle rendered to prime steam lard to tank673
Production of prime steam lard307=45.62
Skins from back fat rendered to prime steam lard586
Production of prime steam lard192=32.76