EXHIBIT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY AT THE PARIS 

 EXPOSITION OF 1889. 



[Accompanying the exhibit of the Bureau of Animal Industry to the Paris Expo- 

 sition of 1889 were the subjoined articles relating to the importance of the live-stock 

 industry of this country. As these papers were prepared with great care, and con- 

 tain much valuable information not readily accessible even to the special reader, 

 they /are inserted in this volume with a view to giving our own people a better un- 

 derstanding of the vast allied interests dependent upon our live-stock industry.] 



MEAT INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



By H. C. CLARK, Esq. 



Meat and dairy; produce take third rank among the surplus pro- 

 ductions which the United States exports for consumption abroad. 

 Cotton and breadstuffs alone exceed them in value. This relative 

 position is maintained, notwithstanding a decrease of 43 per cent, 

 since 1881 in the exportation of hog products, due to prohibitory 

 legislation by other nations. The exportation of these products, at 

 its greatest development in 1881, amounted 'to $104, 660, 000. During 

 the past year (1888) it was $59,229,000. The business of "pork pack- 

 ing," as it is termed, not only remains a leading factor in the foreign 

 commerce of the United States, but it is third in importance among 

 the domestic industrial pursuits of the country. The consumption 

 of hog products in the United States is five times greater than the 

 whole amount of such products exported. This fact gives home im- 

 portance to the sanitary regulation of the business, and of itself in- 

 sures the exercise of care in the production of an article of food which 

 enters so largely into the daily life of 60,000,000 of people. The im- 

 mense amount of capital invested, and the commercial necessity of 

 protecting it from the risk of impairment, supply additional reasons 

 for surrounding the trade with every wholesome precaution which 

 science can devise or untiring energy suggest. 



Next in importance to the avocation of pork packing among the 

 meat industries of the United States is the trade in dressed beef. 

 The average value of the exportation of dressed beef during the last 

 ten years has been over $17,000,000 per annum exclusive of the ex- 

 port trade in live-beef cattle. During the past year (1888) the ex- 

 portation of dressed beef amounted to $18,440,000, and of live cattle 

 to $11,577,000. 



RAISING AND FEEDING CATTLE AND HOGS. 



The chief supply of beef -cattle brought to shipment is derived 

 from the State of Colorado, and from the Territories of Utah, Mon- 

 tana, Idaho, Wyoming, and New Mexico. Other cattle, not exchi- 



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