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            HISTORY OF THE BEEF CATTLE INDUSTRY IN ILLINOIS

                                  BY

                         FRANK WEBSTER FARLEY


                                THESIS

                                FOR THE

                     DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

                            IN AGRICULTURE

                                  IN

                      THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

                                OF THE

                        UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

                                 1915




UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS


                                                             May 22, 1915

    THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY

                        _Frank Webster Farley_

  ENTITLED _History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois_

  ______________________________________________________________

  IS APPROVED BY ME AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
    DEGREE OF _Bachelor of Science in Agriculture_

  ____________________________________________________

                        _~Henry P Rusk~_
                                                     Instructor in Charge

  APPROVED: _May 27, 1915_

                         ~Herbert W. Mumford~
                  HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF Animal Husbandry




INDEX


    I. Introduction
           Topography of the Land
           People
           Cattle and cattle feeding

   II. Cattle Feeding Industry
           The first silo in Illinois
           The Chicago market

  III. Cattle Barons and Pioneer Drovers
           John T. Alexander
           Jacob Strawn
           Benjamin Franklin Harris
           Tom Candy Ponting

   IV. The Range Industry
           Texas cattle

    V. The Pure Bred Industry
           T. L. Miller
           Thomas Clark

   VI. Cattle Plagues

  VII. The Feed Industry of the United States.

      HISTORY OF THE BEEF CATTLE INDUSTRY IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS




I. INTRODUCTION


_Topography of the Land_

"As a whole, the surface of the State of Illinois is nearly level.
The prairie regions which cover a large part of the state are only
slightly rolling, except in those places where streams have worn
valleys. These are shallow in the eastern and the northern parts of
the state, deepening