Gulyás Mihály: A baromfi-feldolgozás és a baromfikonzerv-gyártás története Orosházán (A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 12. Békéscsaba-Orosháza, 1987)

1876, and goose-liver had been transported by rail from Orosháza to Budapest and Vienna. The decsription of egg-proceeding —though this activity has been ceased in the Orosháza plant

—can be of use for those interested in industrial history. The author of this book introduces the retail-dealers as well as the wholesalers of former days. He concludes that most trades dealing with poultry-export were companies. Export-transport demanded a lot of work one man alone was unable to do. Relatives or companions lived abroad, who dealt with selling the goods, and gave informations whether to increase or decrease buying up. Writers of local history, those searching the past of the town find a good source in the chapter describing the placing of the former plants. Here they also get a picture of the buildings and yards of the old plants. We can read a realistic description of the late, now already unknown work in the yards, so about the classing of chickens, fattening, as well as transporting, the transportation of living poultry to abroad markets. In the chapter on poultry-preceeding the author speaks about slaughtering, picking, cooling, classing, packing, cutting to pieces, opening and disembowelling, the production of ready-to-cook products and conserves, freezing, transport of frozen and conserve products. Taking over a slaughter-house (1963) and transforming the buildings of the plant the possibility was opened for the production of ready-to-cook and conserve products. This was the first and for long the only plant in Hungarian poultry-industry dealing with the mentioned activities. The book also informs about the wages of the workers of the former plants, their wage-demands and strikes. Last not least the author describes the cultural life of the plants and thus gives a complete diagram of the history of the plant up to the present. 162