New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
As WAGES RISE DEMAND FoR IEAT GROWS.
Monahf T. dt 4nmaL Steadily Decrecang IN fp0r1s0n
The Worlds Population
By John Hobbs. Editor of 1ae National rrovsioneT

from the city and factory hack to the larni aiiu
the tilling OF the land. Holland ana s"it%eiia .
have also felt the disproportonate increase .,, az
population 20 livestock; cattle nave steou SUI
while ponI,lation has crept ahead and the sheep
industry has drifted back until those two countries
now have only half many sheep to the inhap-
tant as they had twenty-five years ago A quarter
cf century ago they had 1oioOOOoO sheep ana
have only 75.0o,ooO now. In the mean time t tneir
joint population has increased fully . per cent
swftzeTand -Hungary Denmark sweden.
reputation OF those same countries is 5oco ooo
Their edible livestock has not increased IN pro pro-
portion. While the inhabitants of those countries
have increased nearly . per cent, me hePos tb os
eSeen goats and hogs SHOW Startling falling Off
Hogs are becoming more ana more MINOR m orne
Don5ision %grfai factor The British Isles are !"
limited supply Of LIVESTOCK for our home and for
eign trade The foreign trade in livestock and
created by the scarcity of European livestock for
foSd SSe 81 c"e Me w@ 9R"SGSa S5 Europe
With ccInaed @ @ Of o d'V yoge peape naS e to
feed. and nearly 1o.oooooo tower cattle, with which
do it, 1t is no surprise, then that the american
lines has gone the front. pioneered our export
progress and drawn in its wake the Development OF
our livestock and cold storage interests. upon
impetus for stiIl further move ahead. Thirty
years ago the fresh beef OF the American packing
frozen mutton of Australia eight years. for the
first shipment from the antpodes was not landed
The South American meat trade began several
wears later still The progress of the foreign trade
is best in Great Britains imports OF our fac.
tory products In 1S14the United Kingdom bought
5o0l00000 pounds of foreign meats. and 100000 600
pounds in 1890. That due TO the fact that the
British population had increased about 80 per cent
while the home focks and herds had decreased
The people had to be fed The food was i'm
ported.
While our population has been bounding ahead
by the double impetus of the natural increase and
the extraordinary influx of aliens through the i'm
migration office. this country has been forced to
foreign demand for stuffs which their own
scant supplies make necessary. The effect of all
this has been to retard the increase in our home
livestock. The herds and fiocks larger than
crease of population.
The seeming vandalism in the slaughter of edible
animals in this country for meats and provisions
may be from the following statistics the data
There nearly twelve hundred public and pri-
vate abattoirs and packing houses In this country
engaged in the killing of animals for human food
and the packing of provisions. Besides these fac
and butchers. who kin few hogs sheep and cattle
each year. either for family for sale. The
method of estimating this slaughter. as well as
that Of the official kill. was to find out how many
animals IN 4 twelvemonth. Estimating in this way
there killed in the United States in 1900 nearly
100000 cattle and calves Il 600 900 hogs about
42c0OO0 sheer. eGualling about 0G0 600 pounds
OF beef s03a@nGo pounds of pork and 1000 100000
pounds Of mutton is 900 900 900 pounds of fresh
meats in all To this must also be added the edible
portions OF the by-products of the animals It
means 20 pounds Of fresh meat for every man,
woman ard child IN the land. The bill Of fare
however, IL the United States has fish dairy prod
uctS. game ard the increment of the poultry ward
The annual output of eggs and poultry alone
amounts to about s500.0OG00o in value