MEAT PRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

INCREASE OF THE HOME PRODUCTION OF LIVE STOCK BY
ENLARGING THE EXTENT OF ARABLE LAND.

WHATEVER deficiency may at present exist in the supply of food of home production to meet the fullest requirements of the people of the British Isles, that portion of it which consists of live animals should, if possible, be indigenous, for the following reasons, viz. :—In the first place, live animals in their transit over sea as cargo require a very much larger tonnage to be occupied by them on shipboard, and to be paid for as freight, than any other commodity of merchandise. Secondly, the risk of loss from the death of animals occasioned by constipation, as the effect of rigid confinement during an over-sea passage of any considerable distance or duration, and by poisoning from the atmosphere in which they must necessarily be kept, being polluted by the breathing, perspiration, and exhalations from the excrements of the animals so confined, and for which no counteracting means by ventilation can with perfect effect be applied. And thirdly, even to whatever extent the animals may escape from highly infectious or contagious diseases of a most virulent and fatal character being engendered by the causes previously noticed, there cannot but be great waste

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MEAT PRODUCTION

A MANUAL FOR

PRODUCERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND CONSUMERS
OF BUTCHERS' MEAT, BEING A TREATISE ON MEANS OF
INCREASING ITS HOME PRODUCTION

ALSO

COMPREHENSIVELY TREATING OF

THE BREEDING, REARING, FATTENING, LODGING, CARCASS-
WEIGHT, AND SLAUGHTERING OF MEAT-YIELDING
LIVE STOCK; INDICATIONS OF THE QUALITY;
MEANS FOR PRESERVING, CURING, AND
COOKING OF THE MEAT,
ETC., ETC.

BY JOHN EWART

LAND SURVEYOR AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER

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AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE ON MEAT IN MORTON'S "CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE,'
"THE AGRICULTURIST'S ASSISTANT," "THE LAND IMPROVER'S POCKET
BOOK," ETC., ETC.

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CROSBY LOCKWOOD & CO.

7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL

1878

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