. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . g Register started by J. H. Wallace in New York. 1871, June 1st. —The first opening of theKansas City Stock Yards as a live stockmarket. First President, James F. Joy;Superintendent, J. G. Smith; Secretary andTreasurer, Geo. N. Altman. Receipts forseven months Of 1871 were 120,827 cattle,41,036 hogs, 4,527 sheep and SOO horses andmules. 1871.—In April of this year the NationalI.,ive Stock of Chicago contained anitem which commences by saying that Texashas 500,000 inhab
. Hale's history of agriculture by dates. A simple record of historical events and victories of peaceful industries . g Register started by J. H. Wallace in New York. 1871, June 1st. —The first opening of theKansas City Stock Yards as a live stockmarket. First President, James F. Joy;Superintendent, J. G. Smith; Secretary andTreasurer, Geo. N. Altman. Receipts forseven months Of 1871 were 120,827 cattle,41,036 hogs, 4,527 sheep and SOO horses andmules. 1871.—In April of this year the NationalI.,ive Stock of Chicago contained anitem which commences by saying that Texashas 500,000 inhabitants and 2,000,000 headof cattle. It mentions the rancii of King, who owned 65,111 cattle,10,000 liorses, etc. The article concludes bysaying: A steer is worth about $10 inTexas. 1871.—Billy Atlanta, famous Angoramale, killed by accident, at ten years oldwas sire of 2,000 kids, and was sweepstakeswinner during his entire life. Owned byVVm. Landrum, of San Joaquin county, Cali-fornia. 1871, September.—National JAve Stock•Fournal established at Chicago by John and George P. (MIUDSMITHS 1871, September fith.—Goldsmiths Maidplaced the trotting record at 2:17 at Mil-waukee, Wis., driven by Budd Doble. Shewas sired bv Abdallah, 15, her dam Ab, byAbdallah, 1. IST2.—In a l)Ook entitled One HundredYears of American Commerce, by ^hauncty M. Depew, a chapter by PhilipO. Armour mentions this year as the first ofconsequence in summer pork packing, therebeing hogs packed in the summerseason of that year. 1872.—In this year the first commercialorganization of packers of canned goods metin convention m Pliiladelphia. 1873 June 0th.— In a race against Maid reduced the worlds trot-ting record to 2:16%. 1873.—In November of this year the firstnorth-bound shipments of Texas beef cattlewere shipped from Denison to the Chicagomarket. The route was by the M., K. & to Hannibal, thence to first
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