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Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.
The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois. It consists of 50 alderpersons elected from 50 wards to serve four-year terms. [ 1 ] The council is called into session regularly, usually monthly, to consider ordinances, orders, and resolutions whose subject matter includes code changes ...
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]
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 elected government is composed of the Sacramento City Council with 8 city council districts and the Mayor of Sacramento, which operates under a mayor-council government. In addition, there are numerous departments and appointed officers such as the City Manager, Sacramento Police Department (SPD), the Sacramento Fire Department (SFD), City ...
Another meeting would be held soon afterward in Oroville to formalize the proceedings and make permanent the renamed Sacramento Valley Development Association, then headquartered in Colusa. The office was moved once more to Sacramento in 1903, where a building had been erected near the Southern Pacific train depot specifically for the group's ...
In 1915, dairy farmers and processors founded the National Dairy Council when a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak threatened their image. [11] In 1940, the Dairymen’s Union of California was renamed the American Dairy Association, to promote U.S. milk products to consumers through advertising. The American Dairy Association merged with the ...
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.