Beef

the flesh of domestic cattle. The name was introduced into England by the Normans. It was spelled at first as in the last syllable of Front-de-Boeuf in Scott's Ivanhoe. All qualities considered, beef is the most desirable kind of meat. If mankind were restricted to one kind of meat, the choice would undoubtedly be beef. England has long been noted for the consumption of beef. At last accounts the English were using sixty-three pounds of beef per person each year. The consumption in France and Germany is but forty-three pounds per capita. The consumption in the United States and Canada is greater. In the production of beef, the United States easily leads, with over 3,000,000 tons a year; Russia produces half as much; Argentina is next; Germany produces about a million tons a year; Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain produce in the neighborhood of three-fourths of a million tons each; and Australia about one-third of a million. The total world's production of beef is not far from 10,000,000 tons a year. The world's mutton and pork taken together amount to only half as much. Chicago is the greatest primary beef market in the world.