STOCK RAISING IN UNITED STATES DDR 

animals will be slaughtered, and a carefully prepared 
bulletin will indicate, with regard to each carcase, the quality 
and quantity of food used. 
Exhibits will not be limited to American products, and it 
is expected that some of the judges will be Englishmen. 
Exhibits from Canada, or any other foreign country, will be 
admitted in bond, with no charge for import duties, unless 
sold in the United States. All applications for entries must 
be made on printed forms, which may be obtained free 
from the General Manager, International Live Stock’ Fx- 
position, Union Stock Yards, Chicago. 
Mr. Wyndham has been informed that purchasers have 
been sent to England in order to buy choice stock for 
exhibition and subsequent sale, and he reports that a special 
order has been issued by the Secretary for Agriculture at 
Washington whereby Canadian cattle may be sent to the 
Exhibition without being subjected to the tuberculin test, 
provided they are accompanied by a certificate issued by a 
Canadian official or veterinarian, stating that the cattle are 
free from contagious and infectious disease. All such 
Canadian cattle, sheep, and swine will be sent straight to 
the Exhibition grounds, and they will be returned imme- 
diately to Canada at the close of the show. 


CATTLE AND SHEEP RAISING IN THE UNITED STATES. 
In an earlier number of this Journal attention was directed 
to the great decrease which has taken place in the numbers of 
beef cattle inthe United States during the past decade. It 
was shown that the number of cattle, other than milch cows, 
after a rapid increase in the early eighties, attained amaximum 
of 37,651,000 head in 1892, when a decline set in which has 
since been continuous. So rapid has been this decline 
that the number on January ist, 1900, was only 27,610,000, 
representing a loss of nearly 10,000,000 head in eight years. 
But the effect of this great depopulation of the bovine herds 
has not been reflected to an equal extent in the output of beef. 
