Due to the quick availability of funds, several factories under McDonald Foods, which Clark was in charge of, were quickly built. The first to be completed was a feed mill and a large pig farm. Thousands of pigs can be raised here at a time. Completely different from the way people raise pigs, in this pig farm, there are very strict management measures. First of all, any person entering the pig house must be disinfected first to avoid bringing in pathogenic bacteria. Because a large number of concentrated pigs are infected with diseases, it is very difficult to control.

Secondly, the feed used for the pigs in this pig farm is also provided by the company's feed mill. It is never allowed to use other foreign feeds. The pens are also disinfected regularly. In order to prevent diseases for pigs, Scrooge added a lot of sulfonamides to the feed with great conscience.

However, it is not only sulfonamides that are added to the feed, but also a series of the latest achievements of McDonald Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company in the special feed.

First of all, one of the simplest additives is copper sulphate. Adding copper sulfate to pig feed, in the early stage of pig growth, adding copper sulfate to the feed can increase the daily weight gain of pigs by more than 8%, and the utilization rate of feed can also be increased by more than 4%. As for some of the other additives, well, there are some names that a 21st century person may feel very familiar with, and the most famous of this is probably Clenbuterol hydrochloride - this is the well-known Clenbuterol, but Scrooge's purpose for adding this to pigs is still different from that of later generations. Later generations valued this thing more to increase the lean meat rate of pigs, and Scrooge's most important thing was that this thing could accelerate the growth of pigs. In later generations, if the means are not restricted, a piglet, from birth, to 110 kilograms of slaughter, can be compressed into three to four months. In this era, due to the selection of pig breeds and other facilities, such a speed is absolutely unattainable, but Scrooge still hopes that the time for pigs to be slaughtered can be compressed to less than half a year. Therefore, things like growth promoters will naturally be valued.

Of course, pigs that use Clenbuterol hydrochloride and grow pork will have a lot of side effects when eaten. But Scrooge wasn't worried about that. First of all, people in this era eat a limited amount of meat per day, and their total intake is quite limited compared to those who eat more meat than vegetables per day in the 21st century. So, there won't be any big problems. Besides, even if there is really a problem, can you still find out the problem with the medical level of that era? Anyway, Scrooge himself wouldn't eat that thing, what are you afraid of?

To say that these chemical means are used, the effect is really not covered, the first batch of pigs only took 163 days, to reach the slaughter weight, and the slaughter was smooth. To commemorate this miraculous achievement, the farm, which was originally called the First Pig Farm, was renamed 163 Pig Farm.

Of course, large-scale centralized breeding has a lot of advantages such as low cost and fast slaughter, but the risk of this kind of pig farm is not small. The biggest risk is that the pig herd is too dense, the density of the pig population is too high, and once the disease occurs, it is easy to die a large number of people. This is especially true when antiviral drugs are still limited. Therefore, in that era, it was difficult for those who dared to do this not to go bankrupt and pull down.

But Scrooge was different, he had a way to deal with the situation.

Generally speaking, a person's pig is sick and died, and it is very difficult to deal with dead pork, because the difference between dead pork and live pork is too great, especially in the market and healthy live pork together, that is, even leeks and wheat seedlings can not distinguish the four bodies of the dead house, you can also see at a glance that this thing is wrong, plus there was no cold storage at that time, the meat of the dead pig still has a smell, and as long as the IQ is not lower than the green-headed fly, it will not be indistinguishable. Therefore, even if such meat can be processed, the price will be very low. In the end, you still have to lose your old capital.

But Scrooge is different, even if his pigs die of illness, they don't need to be dragged to the market to be sold cheaply, and they can be sent directly to his own food processing factory to process Spam's canned luncheon meat.

Speaking of Spam canned luncheon meat, at that time, it could really be called a high-tech product, and a series of new technologies from MacDonald Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company were applied to it.

The first is the dyeing technique. If you really use fresh meat to make this thing, the cost is a little too high, so Scrooge's Spam mainly uses some stuff that seems to be meat, well, mainly starch, sewerage, plate oil, and some meat that is not very good to sell, or some meat that is not easy to sell directly (well, you know). These things were put in a meat grinder, and they were all twisted into fine pieces, so that no one could tell what they were originally. However, there are still many problems, first of all, the issue of color. The mess doesn't have the vivid and alluring red color of the real meat stuff, which needs to be dyed with chemicals.

There are many things that can dye these mixtures red, so what can be used to color Spam? A dye suitable for coloring Spam must have some of the following characteristics, first of all, the cost should be low, the production and preservation should be convenient, and it should not be as virtuous as the purple dye of the Middle Ages, so what money will it make? Secondly, the color should be good-looking, and the durability of the color should be good, and the color should not change after just ten days. What the? Security, you say? Don't worry, just eat the undead. So after careful research, the experts at McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company unanimously recommended a red dye called 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol to Scrooge.

This recommendation surprised Scrooge, because this dye had a more familiar name in later generations, called Sudan dyes. However, this thing did meet the previous requirements perfectly, so Scrooge did not object, but just imitated the sages, and after signing the agreement, he washed his hands, and then whispered: "The sin is not in my place to shed this man's blood." ”

Solving the problem of color, it is only the first step of the long march, and the next step is the problem of taste. If you just add a little salt or something, the Spam doesn't taste very good, especially after using some meat of not very good quality, the smell of this thing is, well, it's disgusting.

The solution is also simple, first of all, it is cooked at high temperature, and then activated carbon adsorption is used, so that most of the bad odors can be removed, and then it is used with a masking agent. As a result, all kinds of spices, mainly spicy ingredients, were thrown in, and the abnormality in the taste was covered.

Then there's the taste. At this time, Spam, because there is too much starch in it, tastes completely meaty. So, another invention of MacDonald's chemical and pharmaceutical companies, especially in the East, came in handy. This kind of thing is called monosodium glutamate, which is the monosodium glutamate that people are familiar with in later generations. This is one of the few food additives invented by the MacDonald Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company during this period, and Scrooge himself was willing to eat it.

After these methods were used, especially after the MSG was used, Spam tasted it, at least when he had just eaten it, it was really fragrant.

The last issue is the issue of preservation. This is simple, and you can get it directly on sodium nitrite. Not only can it prevent corrosion, but it can also help fix the color. Of course, the dosage should not be too large. It's not good to just put people down. However, the canned food is strictly sealed, and the requirements for preservatives are not too high.

Because the raw materials of Spam are mainly starch, sewage, plate oil and so on. So its cost is much cheaper than its real meat. Later, after Spam was listed in large quantities, some people who couldn't afford to eat meat often used Spam to satisfy their cravings. And after the outbreak of war, he also became one of the most important military rations of the Union army.

The first can of Spam was on the market at the end of 1860. In November of this year, the results of the U.S. presidential election finally came out. Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won an indisputably landslide victory. Although not a single vote was cast for Lincoln in the Southern states, Lincoln was overwhelmingly elected President of the United States of America, relying on the support of the Northern states. His election, in a sense, meant the end of the Virginia dynasty, which had ruled and influenced the United States since the independence of North America. (When the United States was first founded, successive presidents were from Virginia, so this period is called the Virginia Dynasty) He ushered in a new era in which the influence of the North in politics had been completely suppressed by the South. Lincoln was able to win without even a single Southern vote, which meant that the South's influence on the political affairs of the United States had shrunk to the point where it was not worth mentioning.

Many years ago, when the United States had just become independent, the South had the upper hand both in terms of population and economy, and at that time, the South dominated the United States in politics, and later with the rise of the North, the North and the South could compete with each other. Later, although the north had the upper hand, the political power of the south should not be underestimated, at least, although the south did not succeed enough, but there was still more than enough to lose. Not to mention anything else, how many times the North has tried to raise tariffs, but it has not been possible in the face of opposition from the South. And now, Lincoln's election with a high vote shows that according to the rules of the game in the United States, the political influence of the South will not only not be able to accomplish, but even defeat. Southerners felt that they could no longer guarantee their rights through the rules of the game, and that the "tyranny of the majority" lay ahead. As a result, secession from the Union became the choice of some southern states. However, it's like a few people playing mahjong. Someone in front of him kept winning, and when the opposite side's luck began to turn good and he began to draw, he withdrew from the table and said he would not play. So how can it work? In the eyes of the North, the Southerners have taken advantage of the low tariffs to take advantage of the North Nami for many years, and now they say that if they secede from the Union, they will break away from the Union, so how can it work? As a result, before President Lincoln could officially take over as president, a civil war was already imminent.