Excerpt from A Big, Vital American Industry: The Story of Swift and Company Under the provisions of the recent consent decree, issued by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, February 27th, 1920, Swift Company and the other large packers are required to dispose of their interests in stock yards, stock yard terminal railroads, and market papers, and to discontinue the handling of canned fruits and yege tables, and a few other articles that are commonly sold by wholesale grocers. 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.