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Show Pork Packed in Earrels Gave the Industry Name As population on the eastern seaboard sea-board increased during the early development de-velopment of the country, live stock producers in that area found it impossible im-possible to keep pace with demand. Settlers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys started to raise live stock. With the advent of the railroad, notes a writer in the Chicago Tribune, Trib-une, stock was shipped to eastern centers vhere it was killed and processed. pro-cessed. The first trend toward removal re-moval of the industry from the East occurred when pork packing was inaugurated in-augurated in cities west of the Alle-ghenies. Alle-ghenies. This consisted of packing pork in barrels with salt to keep it fresh during transit. From th s practice the industry derived its name, now a misnomer. During the Civil war Cincinnati was the nation's na-tion's largest packing center. About 1875 the refrigerator car was developed, which made possible the shipment of fresh meats, resulting result-ing in the rapid development of packing centers in Chicago and oth-cr oth-cr middlewestern cities. Rgera-tion Rgera-tion made possible a continuous flow of fresh meats from the Middle West not only to the East but to all parts of the world. |
