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Mimeo AS -327 March, 1965 Development of the Beef Cattle Industry Lowell L. Wilson, K. G. MacDonald, H. H. Mayo and K. J. Drewry, Animal Sciences Department Man has used cattle for the past 6500 years as a source of meat, milk, clothing, objects of worship, and as beasts of burden and power. The art of raising animals for food, fiber and power has paralleled the development of our civilization. In fact, changing the natural habits of animals to meet the needs and desires of man was necessary to allow people to rise above barbarism. Cattle were probably hunted for food and fiber in the Old Stone Age. The New Stone Age brought the first primitive type of cattle domestication. During this period, man needed a more steady, and perhaps a more desirable, meat and milk supply. Cattle herding was one of the prestige symbols in primitive times. Among the primitive people, cattle (meaning chattel or capital) were their most valuable possessions and were sometimes used as a measure of the value of other items of property (including wives on occasion). Introduction in U.S. The modern American cattleman would shudder at the sight of the first cattle imported into the Western Hemisphere. Columbus, on his second trip in 1493, brought a few cattle intended for work animals. Three strains of cattle were obtained from the animals brought to the New World by Columbus and other Spanish explorers: 1) the wild cattle of the Caribbean Islands, 2) the fighting bulls of Mexico and 3) the Longhorns of the American plains . Portuguese traders also brought some cattle to Nova Scotia in 1553. However, the first sizable group of British cattle arrived in the Jamestown Colony in 1611. Plymouth Pilgrims also imported one bull and three cows from Devonshire, England in 1624. Cattle spread across the Alleghenies and into Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana by 1800 and into Illinois and Missouri by 1840. However, the Eastern population, and their desire for quality beef, grew much faster than the available supply. In the great Southwest, particularly the Texas rangelands, the first herds probably grazed shortly after 1525. These cattle were the typical Spanish Longhorns, brought into Texas from Mexico. By 1840 cattle were widespread over the Southwestern rangeland, and by 1855 there were 10 head of cattle in Texas for each person. Naturally, the problems of moving this gigantic supply of beef eastward to the population centers had to be solved. Beef Section • Animal Sciences Department Cooperative Extension Service, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Lafayette, Indiana
Object Description
Title | Extension Mimeo AS, no. 327 (Mar. 1965) |
Purdue Identification Number | UA-14-13-mimeoas327 |
Title of Issue | Development in the Beef Cattle Industry |
Author of Issue |
Wilson, Lowell L. MacDonald, K. G. (Kenneth G.) Mayo, Henry Drewry, K. J. |
Date of Original | 1965 |
Publisher | Purdue University. Cooperative Extension Service |
Subjects (LCSH) | Beef cattle |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Mimeo AS (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | Eng |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 06/10/2015 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
URI | UA-14-13-mimeoas327.tif |
Description
Title | Extension Mimeo AS, no. 327 (Mar. 1965) |
Purdue Identification Number | UA-14-13-mimeoas327 |
Title of Issue | Development in the Beef Cattle Industry |
Author of Issue |
Wilson, Lowell L. MacDonald, K. G. (Kenneth G.) Mayo, Henry Drewry, K. J. |
Date of Original | 1965 |
Publisher | Purdue University. Cooperative Extension Service |
Subjects (LCSH) | Beef cattle |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Mimeo AS (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | Eng |
Transcript | Mimeo AS -327 March, 1965 Development of the Beef Cattle Industry Lowell L. Wilson, K. G. MacDonald, H. H. Mayo and K. J. Drewry, Animal Sciences Department Man has used cattle for the past 6500 years as a source of meat, milk, clothing, objects of worship, and as beasts of burden and power. The art of raising animals for food, fiber and power has paralleled the development of our civilization. In fact, changing the natural habits of animals to meet the needs and desires of man was necessary to allow people to rise above barbarism. Cattle were probably hunted for food and fiber in the Old Stone Age. The New Stone Age brought the first primitive type of cattle domestication. During this period, man needed a more steady, and perhaps a more desirable, meat and milk supply. Cattle herding was one of the prestige symbols in primitive times. Among the primitive people, cattle (meaning chattel or capital) were their most valuable possessions and were sometimes used as a measure of the value of other items of property (including wives on occasion). Introduction in U.S. The modern American cattleman would shudder at the sight of the first cattle imported into the Western Hemisphere. Columbus, on his second trip in 1493, brought a few cattle intended for work animals. Three strains of cattle were obtained from the animals brought to the New World by Columbus and other Spanish explorers: 1) the wild cattle of the Caribbean Islands, 2) the fighting bulls of Mexico and 3) the Longhorns of the American plains . Portuguese traders also brought some cattle to Nova Scotia in 1553. However, the first sizable group of British cattle arrived in the Jamestown Colony in 1611. Plymouth Pilgrims also imported one bull and three cows from Devonshire, England in 1624. Cattle spread across the Alleghenies and into Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana by 1800 and into Illinois and Missouri by 1840. However, the Eastern population, and their desire for quality beef, grew much faster than the available supply. In the great Southwest, particularly the Texas rangelands, the first herds probably grazed shortly after 1525. These cattle were the typical Spanish Longhorns, brought into Texas from Mexico. By 1840 cattle were widespread over the Southwestern rangeland, and by 1855 there were 10 head of cattle in Texas for each person. Naturally, the problems of moving this gigantic supply of beef eastward to the population centers had to be solved. Beef Section • Animal Sciences Department Cooperative Extension Service, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Lafayette, Indiana |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 06/10/2015 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
URI | UA-14-13-mimeoas327.tif |
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