Show kansas must go east to meet boston coming west for meat products by C D HARDY swift company i seventy per cent of the live stock produced in this country is raised west of the mississippi river seventy per cent of the tha consuming population lives east of that river A connection must be made between these sections the gestate he state of iowa for example has hn four and aad one half times the production of live stock that the state of new ew york has the state of new york on the other hand contains approximately four and one half times I 1 the population of the state of iowa obviously you cannot transport the surplus number of consumers out to iowa to procure their portion of the surplus production of food the problem is i to get this surplus tion of the raw material of meat fad 1 in lowd iowa reduced to lo a manufactured form and tran transported sported to the con consuming centers of now new york boston requires head of cattle cn talf and hogs hoga annually boston has to go outside to got get most of lie her r ii meat supply kansas contains about head of cattle sheep hogs and has a population of only 2000 people produces each year abut three times the amount of meat food that cn can be consumed within the borders of the state an and d 1 mustio go east to find a a markt market goes east to tact boston coming west so these sections are dependent upon each I 1 ocher |