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From: (Harry Dodsworth)
Subject: Re: [TSL] SS Mississippi
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:59:36 -0500 (EST)


,

Adding a little about the shipment of livestock.
Many steamships from New York after the 1860s advertised "No livestock
carried" - they sometimes specified the species :-)

From both Canada and United States, a trade developed with steamships
carrying livestock to Britain for slaughter. Some ships were built to
carry livestock specifically. This trade decreased with the
introduction of refrigeration.

From Britain to Canada and the United States, the livestock was
generally of higher quality for breeding purposes, rather than for
slaughter.
I recently saw in the Morning Chronicle (Halifax), April 2, 1884,
a note about a shipload of Holsteins on the Furness Line freighter
Newcastle City, on their way to the United States. It advised anyone
interested in dairy cattle to try and see them. This is interesting
since the Holstein is the predominant dairy cow in North America
today; it is difficult in some areas to find dairy producers with
other varieties of cattle.

--
Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada
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