668 CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING 



CONCLUSION. 



I have thus endeavored to exhaust the memoranda accompanying the 

 circular I am responding to. My report has been unavoidably delayed 

 from necessity in the endeavor to be accurate, and from the great dis- 

 tances I have had to investigate, with very meager opportunities for 

 intelligent correspondence. I believe I have touched upon all the facts 

 that were suggested, and I trust to have acceptably met the purposes 

 of the Department. 



ISAAC S. SHEPAED, 



Oonsul. 

 United States Consulate. 



Hankow, March 5, 1884. 



CATTLE IN SOUTHERN CHINA. 



SEPOBT BY OONSTIL SEYMOUR, OF CANTON. 



There are no cattle raised in the vicinity of Canton, or Southern China, 

 that are desirable for importation into any other country. The cattle 

 are generally of the Buffalo breed, with humps on their backs, and 

 usually with little or no hair on their hides. Their meat is so undesira- 

 ble that families who require good beef on their tables get it via Hong 

 Kong from Shanghai. The cattle of Northern China are better than 

 those of Southern China ; and those of Japan being better than any in 

 China. 



Butter is unknown in this part of China, except as imported from 

 Europe and America for foreigners' use. 



0HAELE8 SEYMOITE, 



United States Consulate, 



Canton, November 7, 1883. 



Consul. 



