Identifier: worldsmeatfuture00pear (find matches)
Title: The world's meat future. An account of the live stock position and meat prospects of all leading stock countries of the world, with full lists of freezing works
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pearse, Albert William, 1857-
Subjects: Meat industry and trade Cattle trade Sheep
Publisher: Sydney, N. S. W. J. Andrew
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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ourage stock raisingby disseminating infonnation regarding improved methods.Stockmen from the United States are carefully inquiring aboutand investigating the cattle resources of the count^v^ Ship-ments of live cattle are commencing from the port of Ceiba onthe North Coast, and a refrigerating plant is about to be in-stalled near Puerto Cortes. Improved stock are being intro-duced, and an export of 50,000 head annually is looked for in 152 THE WORLDS MEAT FUTURE the near future. )\I()st of tlie cattle at the present time arefound in the departments of Choluteea and Olancho, on thesouthern and south-eastern side of the country. The entirecountry is comprised of mountains and valleys. Honduras,being within the area of the north-east trade winds, has anequable and agreeable climate, particularly in the higher landsof the interior. The temperature ranges from a minimum of 42deg. on the highlands to 97 deg. on the coast. Streams of clear pure water abound almost everywhere during the rainy
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Half-Blood Honduras Shorthorn Bull, Showing M^vrked ImprovementOver Native Type. season. During the dry season, the open ranges being muchoverstocked, the cattle get in a very poor condition, but withgood management this can be easily remedied. In nearly every part of Honduras there is land suited to theraising of live stock in a limited way. There are two depart-ments, however—Olancho and Choluteca—where three-fourtlisof the cattle of the country are raised. HONDURAS—ECUADOR 153 Ticks are prevalent, and the introduction of dips and dippingis badly needed. On the coa.st lands and in the interior wellwatered valleys, or where irrigation is practicable, permanentfenced pastures are the rule. These are planted with Para, aGuinea grass, which make plentiful and succulent forage. The average rainfall of the whole country annually is abo^t48 inches. The cattle of the countr^^ are descended from importationsfrom Spain soon after the conquest. These naturally have muchdegenerated, the n

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