Excerpt from Packing-House Industries The packing industry with its diversified components as now understood dates from the year 1818 when an establish ment was started in the city of Cincinnati, which soon became the center of this industry. One reason for this was the surrounding corn-raising area - the natural territory for a steady supply of hogs. As the population and facilities for shipping increased, the corn-belt area moved farther west, followed by the packing houses locating near their supply of raw material. Chicago, being situated in the corn-raising area and having natural transportation facilities because of its location at the head of Lake Michigan, followed Cincinnati as the center of the packing industry and is now indisputably and universally acknowledged as the center of the meat industries of the world. Thousands of cars of cattle\ and hogs, both live and dressed, are shipped from Chicago 'annually in addition to those animals slaughtered for consumption in the immediate vicinity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.