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INTRODUCTION. 



England cities along the sea-board, an equal number, making a 

 round million in the aggregate ; and the Southern sea board 

 cities 200,000 more, including Washington, Mobile and New 

 Orleans, making 1,200,000. It is not too much to compute the 

 consumption of the inland cities, towns and villages, altogether, 

 at three times the number 3,600,000 swelling the aggregate 

 to the sum of, say 5,000,000 a year.* The value of these 

 may safely be put at $60 each, on the owner's farm, thus raising 

 the entire sum to $300,000,000, and perhaps higher, besides 

 the heavy amounts which are slaughtered and packed in the 

 interior for exportation abroad, amounting to some millions of 

 dollars more. To these items, add the value of butter and 

 cheese produced from cows, and the labor of working oxen, 

 and the cattle interest of the country swells to an enormous 

 aggregate. 



The quantity of butter produced, in the census returns of the 

 year 1860, was 460,509,854 pounds, being an increase of 46 

 per cent, over the returns of 1850. The quantity of cheese, in 



*To be more exact, so far as the consumption of New York City and its immediate 

 vicinity is concerned, we give below a condensed table taken from the New York 

 Tribune Cattle Market reports for the year 1866, showing the annual receipts of all 

 varieties of stock for the past thirteen years, and the prices at which beef has ruled 

 for the year 1866. 



"The weight, at which the cattle averaged, are only for the four quarters of the 

 carcass, which includes, in value, the hide and tallow, as they are not paid for out- 

 side of the meat. 



RECEIPTS OF STOCK FOR A SERIES OF YEARS. 



1854. 

 1855. 

 1856. 



1S57. 



Beeves. 

 .169.864 

 .155,564 

 .187,057 

 . ltJ2.243 

 .19li874 

 .205.272 



222,835 



1864.. 

 1865.. 



1866.. 



. 264,091 

 .267,609 



.27:!.27 1 



Cows. 

 13.131 

 12,110 



12,857 

 12,840 

 10,128 

 9,492 

 7,144 

 5,749 

 5,378 

 6.470 

 7,603- 

 6,161 



Calves. 

 68,534 

 47.069 

 4.3,081 

 34,218 

 37.67.-i 



30,465 

 35.70!) 

 7-1.621 

 77,991 

 62,114 



Sheep. 

 555,479 

 588,741 

 452,739 

 414,036 

 447,445 

 404.894 

 51.S.750 

 512.336 

 494.342 

 519.316 

 7S2.462 



Swine. 

 252326 

 318,107 

 345,911 



551,479 



1,030,621 



559,421 



1.148,209 



1,101.617 



660,270 



573,197 



666,392 



1,152,491 

 1,051,645 

 942,321 

 1,238,601 

 1,068,092 

 1,11'M81 

 1,333.229 

 1,907.SSO 

 1,927,203 

 1.7>9..",17 

 1,761,335 

 2,062,894 



