Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-12-01
PORK TRADE IN CINCINNATI.
The annexed article, copied from the
Cincinnati Chronicle will DO read with inter.

The annexed article, copied from ,he
Cincinnati Chronicle will be read with inter.
est:
Tas Posk TsApE In Cisc,NsA1i.-pAsr AND
PREsENT.-It has been our Gu stom IN Give snnu,Iiv =
view of the Pork Trade and Market. nj i,s commence "
mem ana close each yer. A walk among the great
rackin0 establishments Oh the canal, reminds us thai
nc nc ssason OF Packing for 1874 has commenced.
Sad nt bpo " y one large house engaged in tho business
o.ner house was busy cutting up. This city having
cecome n sort OF centre for an immense business in
me various articles manufactured from the Hog, great
interest Is felt among dealers in those articles both NJ
home and abroad, for correct information at this
place. We give below, under different heads, q sum.
mary, as correct, we think, as it can be made.
RESULTS OF LAST SEAsos.-The price of Hoo:
quoted sen IN !me Chronicle a. the frs. purchases Of las,
great eTo"' q nn IN BE !, OF OF Hogs were sol! a, piices ranging
rom Si'5O TO 2C0. II aenir. roe md soms , o,. ,soarss
sold at from 2'25 to 40. we think 'T the s '"s, weie
prices ,ber. y. .tason was abou, 81. 90. Al these
ion So, were hacked IN Cincinnati and Coving.
tributed thus
Driven to, and packed here, 20a 600
Wagon Hogs, about 20 0O0
Covington, about IL nm
Total, 4 5000
In the distribution Of these, near seventy thousand
OF them were rendered almost entirely into Lam,
chiefiy on account of q sudden demand for France.
VI LARD there were sent to France, (chiefly, we
believe, 10 Marseilles) about sir and a hair million,
o. pounds, making an investment of about three hun.
ared thousand dollars. The most importun, part Of
rs transaction IS the result. We are informed that
ms was not, on the whole, as favorable rs was ami.
cipated. a part OF the investment was q loosinp bu.
slness; and on u part, the dealers did little better than
r naid ,helr own. We are not informed whether there
WI" DC a demand for France this season or not
The price of BARREL Ponk rose Til near mid ann.
mer, and the Packers here consequently in the no..
gIesate gid moderately well. The transactions with
England were not large but we believe offer. for
the better and nicer parts Of the Hog, some encour.
agement. o
ofENiNo OF THE TRADE.-Before we spenk Of the
prospect of the trade this season, we Give below a
.st OF mercantile houses which will engage in the bu.
", Lee, W. Nea;' n. ". Thomas, Child. H & Co', s 5.
s 5 Irwin; Il: / Kesdef. e J: M iihiiIy"I Evans sf E"iass
Sin Gos se GaS's & { s: ssn' N! s IL D 4, ro f. L Us Spin:
S'B. HUNT, Powers, Phipps. J.. Lawrence, s. II. &
7; Goodin, Langton, r. F.. Mitchell, Ieiehsrt. Tavior,
neinmlngs G.. DAVIS, Carpenter, S. X. Baldriae, Van
nsu hu some ONE, hllf dozen OF the above houses are
new out much the greater part Of them mr.. M cx.
pcrienced Packers, of skill IL Their business, and %.
.aolished fairness in ;helr dealings. Some of them
ae "lcii who can command large capitals. With
Iespect 10 the opening prices all the established facts
arc these. viz AT Chilcothe, contracts have been
made a; $3.50: Indeed, we know one purchase higher
man that: In this city, the first purchases we're
made at $3.50. At Alton, Ill.,, it IS said some sales
nave been made at from 81. so TO 81. 1t is said and
believed that the market will fall lower Immediately.
The present price, we think, may be stated at 81. az:
but the price will depend upon the apparent relation
Of demand and supply, rather than any assured opin.
ions. r."
DEMAND AMI SUPPLY. There are two great sour.
ces OF what may be called ertraneous demand, in the
United States, for Pork. One is the Naval and Com.
mcrclal Marine; and the other is for the West Indies
and other foreign ports. The U. S. Contracts for
navy poIk, at The principal Navy Yards, include
about 5000 barrels. We may infer then, that The en-.
tire Commercial and Naval Marine OF the United
States requires not far from 100, 900 barrels Of Pork,
and we should think the demand for all foreign norris
nearly equal to that. Extraneous, then, to the do.
nestle in families, there IS an outward
demand of about two hundred thousand barrels of
FORK, which demand in n great degree regulates the
market. We do not see from any evidence we have
mat the demand will be materially changed from WIN,
1t was last year. As to the SUPPLY, there are two cir.
cumstances only to be noticed The first is, tba, IA.
ken IN the aggregate there is perhaps, a little lighter
crop Of Corn, which may diminish the general feeding
OF Hogs. Secondly, there is a larger stock of Park
on hand at New Orleans and other por,s. than thore
was last year. These two facts will lust abou, bal
ance each other. and produce no considerable effect on
prices. In respect to the number of Hogs TO q driv.
en- to market, we see no evidence that there is likely to
De "a deficiency. The conclusion therefore is. that
though The general srate Of the country NAV nuthor.
Use a small rise IN price, there are no important infiu.
ences to change the relations of the Pork market from
what they were last year. A market may rise or fall,
rom speculative considerations but from real causes
1t seldom changes very rapidly.