DRESSED BEEF AND LARD. Receipts and shipments of these products during 1890, by routes. DRESSED BEEF AND LARD. Receipts and shipments of these products during 1890, by months. NUMBER OF CATTLE SLAUGHTERED AT CHICAGO For the dressed beef, packing, canning and city trade for the past five years, *Slaughtered at Hammond, Ind., and partially reported in the shipments of live. It is impossible to present the number of cattle slaughtered for each department of trade. Messrs. Swift & Co. and G. H. Hammond & Co. confine their operations to shipping in carcass, while Messrs. Armour & Co. and the Fairbank Canning Co. extend their business to all departments, and Messrs. Libby, McNeil & Libby restrict their operations to the packing, canning, and city trade branches. There has always been some doubt as to the number of cattle packed at Chicago-in most cases the number reported exceeding the net receipts. But it must be understood that the returns of the slaughterers include calves, of which they kill about 90,000 annually. It must also be understood that the slaughtering at Hammond, Ind., includes cattle which may be received by railroad from other sections, and which do not pass through the yards at Chicago. |