[CBQ] Rochelle Meat packing Plant

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Rich,
 
The Rochelle plant was a Swift & Co. plant. It handled prinarily hogs  but 
also beef. In the earliest days the stock arrived via rail on stock #1 and  
#2. Outbound product was dressed and packaged meats. In the early days the 
mtys  were iced on the "ice Track" next to the mains and then spotted for 
loading.  Other outbound products were dried blood,bone meal,hides,urea,edible 
and  inedible tallow. Just thinking about it brings back the smells.
 
I will never forget those smells, the fat in the air and the cries of the  
animals when the "sledge" missed. If you have ever had the flu and had troub
le  keeping your stomach under control then you have a small idea of what it 
was  like to switch this plant on a humid night.
 
Leo Phillipp
 
 

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