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BEGINNINGS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



slaughter houses and meat packing plants, from which meats 

 are shipped to all parts of the world. The Union Stock 

 Yards and packing houses are noted features of the great 

 city of Chicago, and are daily visited by tourists from all 

 over America and many other countries. In 1909 there 

 were 1641 slaughtering and meat-packing plants in the 

 United States, in which were killed and prepared for food, 

 over a billion dollars worth of farm animals. These figures 

 are given simply to show something of the importance of the 



Fig. 2. A view in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. Photograph by courtesy 

 The Farmer. 



live-stock trade and of the part it must play in American 

 agriculture. 



The first use of animals by man dates back to the days 

 when there was no civilization, when no written records 

 were made, and the people lived as ignorant savages. This 

 was in prehistoric times, when the only implements used 

 were very crude ones made by hand, of stone, iron, or copper. 

 That animals lived with man in these prehistoric days, we 

 know, because the bones of man, and those of horses, cattle, 



