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Show PORK FAVORITE HEAT OF FARMER Department of Agriculture Gives Interesting Statistics. CSTY DWELLERS EAT BEEF First Adequate Information Concerning Concern-ing the Meat Consumption of Various Vari-ous Sections of the Country, and of the City and Country Population, That Ever Has Been Obtained West Leads in Consumption of Beef and Mutton. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) That the farmers are the chief pork and poultry consumers, when n comparison com-parison is made on a per capita ba-sis, ba-sis, while the city dwellers eat a greater proportion of heef, veal and mutton, is shown by the estimates of the per capita consumption of each kind of meat and poultry by the urban nnd rural population, which have just been completed by the bureau of crop estimates, United States department of agriculture. This is the first adequate ade-quate information concerning the meat consumption of various sections of the country, nnd of the city and country population, that has ever . been obtained. ob-tained. The figures in the estimates represent pounds of dressed weight as would be sold by the butcher. Greater in Country. The total meat consumption per capita Is 9 per cent greater in the country than in the city, and excess in varying degrees is found In every one of the customary geographical divisions. divi-sions. Beef consumption is nearly two-thirds two-thirds greater in the city than In the country. In both veal and mutton consumption per capita the city exceeds ex-ceeds the country, veal by 119 per cent and mutton by 43 per cent, and there is a varying preponderance of the city consumption in all sections, except that mutton consumption per capita is greater in the country in the West that is, between the Great Plains and the Pacific ocean. If beef, veal rnd mutton are combined, the city exceeds the country in per capita consumption by two-thirds. What the country loses In comparison compari-son with the city in the per capita consumption con-sumption of beef, veal and mutton Is more than offset by what it gains in the consumption of pork and poultry. These are the meats, if poultry may be called meat, that are more especially adapted to the country than the oth- I ers. The per capita consumption of pork and poultry In the country is everywhere ev-erywhere above that in the city, and for the United States as a whole the country is higher by nearly two-thirds for pork and more than one-half for nnnHrv. City Eats Beef and Mutton. The city consumes more beef, veal and mutton per capita than it does pork and poultry by 9 per cent, but the country consumes more pork and poultry per capita than the other meats by 150 per cent ; and in the city pork and poultry are 48 per cent of the total - meat consumption (including poultry), and in the country 71 per cent. Beef, veal and poultry consumption per capita are higher in the North than in the South, but in pork consumption con-sumption the South is higher. The West is above the other sections in beef and mutton consumption, and is barely below the leading sectlot), the north Atlantic, In veal consumption, but It Is lowest in poultry consumption consump-tion and, except In comparison with the north Atlantic states, Is lowest in pork consumption. |
