PENRITH HERALD and East Cumberland and Westmorland News. =============================================== AGRICULTURE #2 BEEF CONSUMED IN U.S.A. The quantity of beef consumed in the principal cities of the United States is something enormous. To satisfy the cravings of the busy population of New York, 450,000 cattle are annually subjected to the pole-axe; Philadelphia yearly consumes the carcases of 250,000 animals; the appetite of Boston is appeased with 120,000 beasts; Brooklyn is content with 100,000; St. Louis as many as Baltimore - 150,000; Chicago, 170,000; and other cities and towns about 400,000. When we think that these cities are great pork consumers besides, the figures are all the more wonderful.