The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-24

Fresh Meat and Live Animal Exports
With its usual care. the New York
Shipping Last has compiled an in~struc-
tive table showing the exports of fresh
beef, mutton, live stock, ETC., from the
four principal Atlantic ports of the
United States, from May 1st to May
31st, 1879. Notwithstanding the fact
that the privy council of Great Britain
have placed some somewhat hampering
restrictions on our live stock traffic,
first on live cattle and more recently on
hogs, still the traffic seems to increase.
The illy-constructed abbatoirs on the
docks at Liverpool, and the delays and
annoyance shippers or consignors mest
with on the arrival of their stock at that
port, are sufficient almost to discourage
further exports until some of the exac-
tons imposed are greatly modified or
removed; and, with any other people to
deal with, shipments might wholly
cease. The American, however, when
he sets about with a determination to
overcome a foreign prejudice does not
stop until he has conquered it, and that
is precisely what our American shippers
have done, and are still doing. If there
were no restrictions placed upon the
shipment of live stock to England, our
exports, which now show a decrease,
would go largely towards turning the
tide the other way.
The table referred to shows that dur
ing the month of May there was ship
ped from the ports of New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore,
$685., 440 pounds of fresh beef, 97,125
pounds of mutton, 7,717 head of cattle,
Is, $50 head Of sheep and 6,361 head of
hogs. OF $685. 40 pounds of fresh
beef sent out, New York shipped $685.
040 pounds, the remainder, being nearly
equally divided, was shipped by Phila-
delphia and Boston.
In the shipment of live cattle, Boston
takes the lead, the number going out
from that port during the month
amounting to 1908 head, New York
shipping 1907, Philadelphia 1927 and
Baltimore $50. Boston also seems to
have been the principal port from
which the bulk of live sheep were ship
ped, she sending forward 1922 head
out of the entire number, 1889. The
same port also forwarded 4,951 head
out Of q total number of 1851 hogs sent
abroad, neither Philadelphia nor Balti-
more shipping any. The figures given
show that Boston is becoming the prin-
cipal Atlantic port for the export of live
stock. and certainly she enjoys the most
ample facilities for the care and hand
ling Of this class of exports. New York,
with all her advantages. has not been
able to wrest the bulk of this business
from Boston, and is deyising ways and
means by which the most of this con-
stantly increasing trade may be di-
rected to, and kept within, her limits.
In this connection, we append the
following table from the late quarterly
report of the bureau of statistics, which
gives the number of cattle in the United
States for two periods, that of 1869 and
1878. The whole number of milch cows
in 1869 is given at 1892. ia; all other
cattle, 12,464,385. In 1873 there were
II, 300, 100 cows and 1928, 800 head of
other cattle. This shows a large per
cent. of increase in eight years. The
number in the states named below for
those two periods, are as follows: