260 



CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



This gives the following total of animals slaughtered in Paris in 1S'S2 : 

 Oxen, 273,382; calves, 230,443; lambs, 1,800,900. 



OCTROI TAXES. 



The octroi, or municipal tax, is levied in all cities and villages upon 

 every article of food and drink. Every person who eats and drinks 

 thus becomes a tax-payer. 



GRADING MEAT IN LILLE, PxVKIS, AND LONDON. 



The different appreciation of the various cuts of meat in the markets 

 of Lille, Paris, and London is astonishing. The stock-breeders arc in- 

 terested and should familiarize themselves with this question, that they 

 may know whnt portions of the body they should strive to develop by 

 the judicious choice of breeding animals. In the same animal the mar- 

 ket price varies more than half, according to the part of the animal 

 from which it is taken. A pound of the fillet in the subjoined cut, No. 

 1, fig. 2, and No. 5, fig. 1, are sold at Lille at 41 cents and at Paris at 

 44 cents per pound, while the portions 13, 14, and 15 scarcely bring 12J 

 to 14 cents per pound. This distinction is not made in all the cities, 

 but is destined to become general in all large centers of consumption. 



The accompanying cuts and tables give a clear idea of the mode of 

 grading beef in Lille, Paris, and London : 



Mode of dividing an ox in ihe abattoirs at Paris. 



