Identifier: animalproducts00simm (find matches)
Title: Animal products;
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Simmonds, Peter Lund, 1814-1897. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animal products. (from old catalog) Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Pub. by Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y part of the known world. The number of oxen returned in the United States in 1873 was.16,413,800, valued at ^65,860,000, and of milch cows 10,575,000,valued at ^£63,000,000. The beef product is given there at2,926,571 tons, of which 2,866,365 tons are consumed, leaving asurplus of 60,206 tons of beef. Of this quantity, about 11,898tons are shipped, and the remainder, 48,308, unutilised. The business of stock-raising in the United States is a growingone, particularly in Texas, where extensive experiments are beingmade with a view to the improvement of cattle by imported stock,,and it is believed that ere long, the wild long-horned cattle willbe much changed for the better. Illinois ranks second in order,,possessing 1,269,000 oxen and 710,900 cows. The live stock trade of the South-western States has become a.matter of millions of cattle. The number in Texas is over3,500,000, with half as many more upon the western plains. From350,000 to 500,000 head are annually driven into Kansas,.
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G 2 84 CLASSIFICATION OF THE BO VINES. Colorado, and Wyoming, to supply the eastern trade. Yearlingsare bought at about 2\s. each, two-year-olds 32^. to 40^., cows atiZs. to 36s., and oxen at ^3 ; but large herds are often boughtmuch below these prices. A herd of two or three thousand uponthe trail presents a fine sight, tramping along in Indian file, ex-tending a distance of a mile or more over the prairie, and feedingupon the spring grasses as they go. At Los Animas, a junctionrailway station, there are three large slaughter-houses, where 80 or90 men kill and dress from 700 to 800 oxen a day. They arepacked into refrigerator cars, which each hold from 40 to 50carcases. Cattle in immense herds are raised in the pastures of CentralAmerica. In the plains of Honduras, and on the eastern districtsof Nicaragua, there are cattle farms on which are herds of from10,000 to 40,000 oxen, bulls and cows. There are four well-marked and distinct genera of the Bovines.1. Bos. 2. Bison. 3. Buffalo (

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