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ELIGIBLE EOR MEMBERSHIP' IN THE ROUGH-RIDER REGIMENT 



Bull-riding in Oregon is less brutal than bull-fighting in Mexico, but it is better sport, and 

 the cowboy who herds our future beef supply is nothing if not a lover of good sport 



large uses in the neighborhood of 47,000,- 

 000,000 pounds of meat a year. This 

 would be an average of about 30 pounds 

 per capita throughout the world. The 

 people of the United States a few years 

 ago were eating 172 pounds per capita, 

 which is more than four times as much 

 as the average for the race (see pages 

 10 and 15). 



Next to the Australians, the Ameri- 

 can people are the largest of all meat 

 eaters. In butchers' meat, the latest sta- 

 tistics showed the American to be eating 

 172 pounds, the Englishman 119 pounds, 

 the German 113 pounds, the Frenchman 

 and the Belgian 80 pounds, the Austro- 

 Hungarian 64 pounds, the Russian 50 

 pounds, and the Spaniard 49 pounds. 

 The average American eats 8o T ^ pounds 

 of beef, yy 2 pounds of veal, 78 pounds 

 of pork and lard, and 6 T / 2 pounds of mut- 

 ton and lamb a year. 



Where we eat 80 pounds of beef, the 

 Englishman eats 56 pounds, the French- 

 man 37 pounds, and the German 36 

 pounds. Where we eat 78 pounds of 

 pork, including lard, the Englishman eats 



33 pounds, the German 67 pounds, and 

 the Frenchman 26 pounds. 



We eat yy 2 pounds of veal where the 

 Englishman eats 4 pounds, the German 

 7/4 pounds, and the Frenchman 8 

 pounds ; and we eat 6 l / 2 pounds of mut- 

 ton and lamb where the Englishman eats 

 26 pounds, the German 2 J / 2 pounds, and 

 the Frenchman 9 pounds. 



From these figures it will be seen that 

 the Frenchman eats less than half the 

 beef we do. He eats as much beef as the 

 German, but less than half as much pork. 



MEAT SUPPLY OP CENTRAL EUROPE 



It is interesting to study the per capita 

 production of meats in the countries of 

 the Central Powers at the present time. 

 The statistics of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture reveal the fact 

 that Germany, Austria - Hungary, Bul- 

 garia, and Turkey had a total of approxi- 

 mately 50,000,000 cattle before the war 

 began. 



The Department of Agriculture says 

 that about one-fifth of the total number 

 of cattle in Germany are slaughtered an- 



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