ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



sensational press. The high price of beef in 

 recent years has forced many others to make 

 a hke substitution. But the principal cause of 

 the decline of sheep has been the movement 

 of the agricultural population to the industrial 

 centers in the towns and cities. This class, 

 with an already acquired taste for mutton, 

 is able to gratify that liking to a greater degree 

 in the town than in the country, both on 

 account of the better opportunity offered by 

 the open market, and the increase of its pur- 

 chasing capacity by the higher wages paid 

 in the towns." 



While from time to time, for one reason or 

 another, objections are raised on the part of 

 foreign countries against American meats, the 

 fact remains that the overcrowded nations of 

 Europe must depend upon outside sources 

 — largely, perhaps chiefly, upon the United 

 States — for flesh foods. In Germany, during 

 the summer of 1905, under a meat inspection 

 law of unusual stringency aimed at exclusion, 

 the prices of meats rapidly rose, and the sup- 

 ply decreased until the matter became of 

 greater national significance than the aUeged 

 dangers from the foreign meats. The whole- 



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