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Livestock to Chicago & Later Joliet

Orrin Pauling>NIU Collection>NIU Collection, Segment 16

Livestock to Chicago & Later Joliet,

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LIVESTOCK: Orrin notes that early in his career livestock went to Union Stockyards in Chicago & later they went to Joliet. Mentions number of cattle going through a stockyard in a day & busy days. Finally, he started selling to cattle buyers who would come to farm.