Excerpt from Food From the Far Or: American Agriculture, With Special Reference to the Beef Production and Importation, of Dead Meat From America, to Great Britain The main portion of the matter making up this volume was written in the form of letters from the United States and Canada to the Scotsman newspaper, the proprietors of that journal having commissioned the writer to visit America with the view of giving to British farmers, through its columns, some trustworthy information on a subject threaten ing seriously to affect their welfare - namely, the im portation of dead meat from the Far West. The letters have been carefully revised, altered, and sup plemented; while four fresh chapters have been introduced - two on American shorthorn-breeding; one Statistical; and one on What Science says to the cattle-feeder. The first and second refer to the supply of shorthorns in America, to their use in the improvement of the general cattle stock of the country, and to the leading features of shorthorn breeding as now carried on in the United States. The Statistical chapter shows the amount of deadmeat imported from the United States since the commencement of the trade, and also indicates the figures at which the different varieties of American beef might be sold in British markets. The chapter on What Science says to the cattle-feeder is meant to give backbone to the practical recommendations in the chapter that precedes it. 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.