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Lazy S Ranch was a ranch in Texas that was founded in 1898 by Christopher Columbus Slaughter. The ranch stood at about 250,000 acres in Cochran and Hockley County, most of which in a 180,000-acre contiguous pasture. The ranch was home to 37,000 heads of cattle. Slaughter ran the ranch adequately until his death in 1919.
Christopher Columbus Slaughter (also known as C. C. Slaughter or Lum Slaughter; February 9, 1837 – January 25, 1919) was an American rancher, cattle drover, cattle breeder, banker and philanthropist in the American frontier.
Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942. In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈ æ b ə t w ɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility.
The increased production of animal feed permitted the establishment of large feedlots in which cattle could be collected and fattened before being sent to slaughterhouses. Finally, the slaughterhouses themselves needed large quantities of water, estimated at 800 U.S. gal (3,000 L) of water for each butchered animal. [1] (The Ogallala Aquifer is ...
A bull bound for a Massachusetts slaughterhouse briefly escaped its fate Monday after it crashed through electrified fences, jumped a berm, ran across on an interstate and swam through a lake ...
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority sold the Neighborhood House, once a social services hub. New owner has plans to renovate, repurpose.
The Hartman Stock Farm Historic District was a historic district in Columbus, Ohio. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places from 1974 to 2022. [1] [2] The district is the site of Hartman Farm, a 5,000-acre farm founded by Samuel B. Hartman in 1903.
A Mississippi slaughterhouse that supplies chicken to Chick-fil-A is directly to blame for the death of a 16-year-old worker who was sucked into equipment in July and killed within minutes, the ...