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Show Kansas Must Go East to Meet Boston Coming West for Meat Products By C. D. HARDY, Swift & Company. Seventy per cent of the live stock produced in this country is raised west of the Mississippi river. Seventy per cent of the consuming population popula-tion lives east of that river. A connection must be made between these sections. The state of Iowa, for example, has four and one-half times the production pro-duction of live stock that the state of New York has. The state of New York, on the other hand, contains approximately four and one-half times 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 to get this surplus production produc-tion of the raw material of meat food in Iowa reduced to a manufactured form and transported to the consuming centers of New York. Boston requires 200,000 head of cattle and 1,000,000 hogs annually. Boston has to go out-side to get most of her meat supply. Kansas contains about 2,000,000 head of cattle, 330,000 sheep, 1,750,000 hogs, and has a population of only 2,000,000 people. Kansas produces each year about throe times the amount of meat food that can le consumed within the borders of the state, and must go Kast to find a market goes East tc nv-ct Boston coming West. So these sections are dependent upon each |