400 



CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



The number of cattle in the two provinces of Westphalia and Rhenish 

 Province, large portions of which belong to this consular district, is ex- 

 hibited in the following table: 



There is to be observed a, slight decrease in both of these provinces, 

 and the increase in the Kingdom of Prussia, as the respective tables 

 show, is rather insignificant. 



The census of cattle taken in the Government district of Dusseldorf 

 January 10, 1873, resulted in 204,609 head, as against 200,458 January 

 10, 1883. 



The number of cattle in the municipal district of Barmen amounted 

 to 1,005 head in 1873 and to 1,322 in 1883, and in the municipal dis- 

 trict of Elberfeld to 1,120 in 1873 and to 1,587 in 1883. The number 

 of households owning cattle in the Kingdom of Prussia amounted to 

 3,124,040 in 1883 as against 2,977,953 in 1873. 



CATTLE CENSUS OF EUROPE. 



The following table exhibits a synopsis of the stock of cattle in the 

 several principal European states, with the exception of Turkey : 



CLIMATE AND TEMPERATURE OF BARMEN. 



As to the climate and temperature of Barmen the following is referred 

 to. The calculation is based on the system of Celsius : Altitude, 154.8; 

 mean temperature, 7.3 ; in January, 1.2 ; in July, 13.7. The fore- 

 going calculation is the result of twenty- three years' observation. The 

 rainfall averaged 700 mm per annum. 



CATTLE SLAUGHTERING IN GERMANY. 



Since the communication by railroads and steamboats has become so 

 extensive and so universal, the transportation of live stock for slaughter- 

 ing purposes has attained enormous proportions, and the cattle markets 

 of old have given way to large stock-yards, and in nearly all the large 



