WHAT AMERICA EATS
According to an American provision trade organ, there is killed in the United States about as mu ah hog meat as of both beef and mutton. Official and unofficial abattoirs and farmers kill about 10,000,000 cattle and calves annually. Placing the average of the (tressed carcases of all at 6001 b, they lull annually 6,000,000,0001 bof beef per year. There are also slaughtered about 40,000,000 sheep and lambs each* year. Averaging their carcases at 651 b gives an annual kill of 2.600,000,0001 b of mutton.
The same slaughterers kill fullv 40.000,000 head of hogs -each twelve onna S "n Averaging these carcases at 200 b, dressed, the yield is 8,000,000,OOOib of pork as their annual kill. The hog differs from the steer or the sheep m that the feet and head are also afcen. Taking the above as a fair averheavy and light carcases, ’ it will be seen that ' America P3 ts hoef and mutton, and 8;000,000,0001b of pork per year.
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New Zealand Mail, 17 September 1902, Page 65 (Supplement)
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164WHAT AMERICA EATS New Zealand Mail, 17 September 1902, Page 65 (Supplement)
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