. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. 14 BEGINNINGS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY slaughter houses and meat packing plants, from which meats are shipped to all parts of the world. The Union Stock Yards and packing houses are noted features of the great city of Chicago, and are daily visited by tourists from all over America and many other countries. In 1909 there were 1641 slaughtering and meat-packing plants in the United States, in which were killed and prepared for food, over a billion dollars worth of farm animals. These figures are given simply to show something of the importance of
. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. 14 BEGINNINGS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY slaughter houses and meat packing plants, from which meats are shipped to all parts of the world. The Union Stock Yards and packing houses are noted features of the great city of Chicago, and are daily visited by tourists from all over America and many other countries. In 1909 there were 1641 slaughtering and meat-packing plants in the United States, in which were killed and prepared for food, over a billion dollars worth of farm animals. These figures are given simply to show something of the importance of the. Fig. 2. A view in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. Photograph by courtesy The Farmer. live-stock trade and of the part it must play in American agriculture. The first use of animals by man dates back to the days when there was no civilization, when no written records were made, and the people lived as ignorant savages. This was in prehistoric times, when the only implements used were very crude ones made by hand, of stone, iron, or copper. That animals lived with man in these prehistoric days, we know, because the bones of man, and those of horses, cattle,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles Sumner, 1860-1939. St. Paul, Minn. : Webb Pub. Co.
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