Animal foods are expensive and contain much refuse. Their extractives tend to overstimulate.

Protein, fat, mineral matter, water are the constituents of animal food. Excess of protein food is a health-menace.

Animal health and sanitary environment for animals are the necessary forerunners of wholesomeness of animal food.

Chicago is the meat center of the United States.

The workers employed number 40,000; 200,000 form the packing population; 1200 farmers come daily to the stockyards with cattle, sheep, hogs. Live stock worth over $1,000,000 are received every day.

$390,000,000 worth of live stock is sold yearly at the Chicago yards. $300,000,000 of this value is raw material. $90,000,000 is labor.

$300,000,000 capitalization covers the Chicago plants and their plants in other American and foreign cities.

(Data used from Report of Chicago Association of Commerce).