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Cattle are not often kept solely for hides, and they are usually a by-product of beef production. Hides are used mainly for leather products such as shoes. In 2012, India was the world's largest producer of cattle hides. [114] Cattle hides account for around 65% of the world's leather production. [115] [116]
Cattle are kept as livestock almost everywhere except in parts of India and Nepal, where they are considered sacred by most Hindus. Bovids are used as draft animals and as riding animals. Small breeds of domestic bovid, such as the Miniature Zebu, are kept as pets.
Within this council, the overseer of cattle belonged to the branch of the administration tasked with the administration of resources, which was headed by overseer of the treasuries. [1] The primary responsibility of the position was the maintenance of an inventory of all cattle in the country and the collection of their hides. [1]
The kingdom of Ankole expanded by annexing territory to the south and east. [12] In many cases, conquered herders were incorporated into the dominant Hima stratum of society, and Bantu agricultural populations were adopted slaves and treated as legal inferiors. [12] Neither group could own cattle, and slaves could not herd cattle owned by the ...
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-544-36996-2. McCoy, Joseph G. (1874). Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest. Kansas City, Mo.: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson.
Henry Miller, c. 1887 Correspondence between Henry Miller and his superintendent, P.H. Turner. Henry Miller (July 21, 1827 – October 14, 1916) was a German-American rancher known as the "Cattle King of California" [1] who at one point in the late 19th century was one of the largest land-owners in the United States.
The Chisholm Trail ~ A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail. Guthrie, Oklahoma: Co-Operative Publishing Company. pp. 266– 268. ISBN 978-1632202666 – via Internet Archive. Briggs, Harold E. (1950). Frontiers of the Northwest: A History of the Upper Missouri Valley. New York, N.Y.: Peter Smith. Knowlton, Christopher (May 30, 2017).
Sidney Kidman (right) and J. R. Chisholm in 1905. Sir Sidney Kidman (9 May 1857 – 2 September 1935), known as Sid Kidman and popularly named "the Cattle King", was an Australian pastoralist and entrepreneur who owned or co-owned large areas of land in Australia in his lifetime.