Report / Economic Advisory Council. Committee on Slaughtering of Livestock.

  • Great Britain. Economic Advisory Council. Committee on Slaughtering of Livestock.
Date:
1933
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    as high as 80,000 head of animals of all kinds in a week. Nor do we know to what extent the industry is burdened with surplus capacity. 103. The centre of the industry is in the corn belt states, or in the northern half of the 1 Mississippi valley, in which area a large part of the production of livestock in the United States takes place. Chicago lies between the western producing states and the eastern consuming states. In addition, there are important slaughtering centres in the heart of the producing area, e.g., at Kansas and Omaha. The following table (Table 18) illustrates the point :— TABLE 18. Percentage of total slaughtering which took place in the six most umportant districts in 1980. (From figures of carcases federally-imspected.) | Sheep and | Station. Cattle. | Calves. | fabs Hogs. Chieago | 18°7 11°6 17-7 it toro Kansas ... 10°2 4°7 9°4 0°73 Omaha ... 3 | 10°4 1°3 . 12°3 | 5:2. South St. Panl ... wie. Oe 13°7 4°1 5°5 Sioux City e- ctr 4°7 a) . 4°8 3°2 New York + Va 4°5 | 14°3 18°3 2is Total, 6 districts 5 | | emai Mba) <hr lg i dD All the cities named except, of course, New York, lie within the corn belt. (c) Slaughtering methods in the Dominions. (i) CANADA, 104. Slaughtering and meat packing was, in 1929, the second most important industry in Canada, having in that year a gross output of 185 million dollars. The most important centre of the industry is Ontario, where, in 1928, there were 25 establishments having a gross output of over 90 million dollars. The system of slaughtering is, in general, much the same as in the United States. That is to say, slaughtering is centralised in large slaughterhouses owned by private firms. There are also a certain number of co-operative slaughter- houses, but these do not at present handle any large proportion of the trade. There was at one time a municipal slaughterhouse in Toronto, but this was closed some few years ago and there are now no important municipal slaughterhouses in Canada. [8282] } ) c 4