Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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corn. This grain is the best fattening-food for swine.Millions of bushels are used yearly for that purpose. The principal pork-packing centers are the cities ofthe prairies, especially Chicago and Kansas City (Kansas). CATTLE AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. 135 Immense quantities of pork, bacon and lard are sentabroad, chiefly to England, Germany and other countriesof western Europe. The pork products sent each year The hides of cattle are tanned and changed into leather. Onepart of the tanning process consists in soaking the hides in waterin which certain kinds of bark have been steeped. Hemlock barkis often used, and as hemlock trees aboundin Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan andthe northern New England states, most ofthe tanning is done there.
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/&M: from our country to England alone have a higher valuethan all the gold mined here in the same time. The United States produces about as much pork as isproduced in all Europe. 125. Cattle and Dairy Products. Cattle are not native to any part of America, but theynow thrive in great numbers on the prairies, the Westernplains, the pampas, the campos and the llanos, — inshort, wherever there is good grass land There are many cattle in e^state in the Union, but most ofthem are on the prairies, wheregrass and corn are plentiful.Large herds graze on the Westeriplains, from Texas to Montana. The great state of Texas raisesmore cattle than any other state inour country. Illinois ranks vsecond ; but in proportion to size, jthis state ranks first. As the population of the JWestern plains is small, i;;;nearly, all the cattle raised 111in that region are sent to Iffthe cities farther east, — toChicago and Kansas City(Kansas), where the beef^sdressed for market. Theprairies are more thi

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