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The Department of Correction established a plant at CIF to process food grown on state farms at the Pendleton Correctional Facility formerly known as the Indiana Reformatory, and the State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana. The food was originally used only for state institutions, but later included some county jails.
Franklin Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana.The district encompasses 73 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential section of Michigan City.
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
Porker, market pig between 30 kg (66 lb) and about 54 kg (119 lb) dressed weight; Baconer, a market pig between 65 kg (143 lb) and 80 kg (180 lb) dressed weight. The maximum weight can vary between processors. Grower, a pig between weaning and sale or transfer to the breeding herd, sold for slaughter or killed for rations. [clarification needed]
The district encompasses 215 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Michigan City. It developed between about 1860 and 1963, and includes examples of Italianate , Greek Revival , Queen Anne , Colonial Revival , and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture.
Washington Park is a historic public park and national historic district located on Lake Michigan at Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana.The park encompasses 13 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and 21 contributing objects, and includes the Michigan City Zoo.
South Michigan Street Historic District is a national historic district located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It encompasses nine contributing buildings on a commercial strip in South Bend. It developed between 1911 and 1945, and included notable examples of Classical Revival architecture.
Intensive pig farming, also known as pig factory farming, is the primary method of pig production, in which grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing or straw-lined sheds, whilst pregnant sows are housed in gestation crates or pens and give birth in farrowing crates.