Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-01-15

The States Of Virginia, New York and
North Carolina each have more hogs than
Illinois and Nissonri; bu, We have taken
the States of the Yves aud the South
West together To show the result.
Now. we want 10 draw Two ar three in
ferences from the number Of hogs in the
several States. befnre VIC compare the
production with ,ha, nf Europe.
]. In the first place. hogs are fa,ted
and nearly supporied on maze or Indian
corn. They exist, therefore, in the sew.
eral states jus, in proportion to the pro
duction of Indian corn Now, Tennessee
has the most. and the three States of Ten
nessee, Ohio and Kentucky far more than
any other three States. of both Indian
corn and hogs The twenty six millions
81 hogs in The United States can scarcely
consume less than two hundred millions
Of bushels Of corn! They are. therefore.
the greatest marke, tor ,fa, article
I 2. If we suppose these hogs to aver.
age $50 lbs each, and to be worth las
they arej $3.50 per cw,, then this animal
alone is IN the Uni,ed States, worth ONE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY tx MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS, or three tunes the entIre COtion
Crop tor the year 1915. The value OF
swine in the state OF Ohio alone exceeds
twelve millions of dollars.
3. l. is important to discover how
large q proportion Of swine are annually
killed. There are two sorts Of consnmp.
ton for swine. One may be called the
commercial. and the other the domestic
consumption. One is for family use and
The other for commerce. Almost every
farmers family kill one or more hogs.
This is constan. drain on the increase
Blu, on the other hand The increase of
SWINE is go great that il viii exceed in
"ne year .he original stock. unless check
ed. The main inquiry is, how large a
| proportion of hogs are fa,led in order to
supply the provisions Of commerce. In
| the year lS45 there will have been killed
a, the various Pork Packing establish
men,s of Ohio, about 100000 hogs =
About $50, 900 Of these NAV be set down
as from other states. Ii is fair. therefore.
| to assume that commerce consumes about
$50 900 h 'gs IN OHIO. per annum. The
present stock cannot be much if any un
der $500 900. II follows. therefore. tina,
commerce consumes near about one six h
par, of the stock on hand. We believe
,ha, in the Uni'ed States, generally. this
is much too high an estlma.e; yet the
figures in the western states will show
this resul. very nearly.
4. But suppose the total is really a.
great as the facts imply. then il follows {;
fact Of great moment To the packer) tina
no safe conclusion can be drawn from III.
number Of hogs killed in one year Of III,
real number Of The stock. or of the mum
Der that will be brought to market mex
year. This is obvious, il the reader Il
reflect, that a gwen stock Of hogs viii
double themselves in one year. and tina
yet the number OF hogs of commerce i.
only one sixth part of the original NUN
Der! This is the grea, source of the con
slant errors made in calculating the mum
her Of hogs TO be brought. To market, an,
the effects on the market. The truth is
The domestic or family consumption Is til
great fact, aud that we cannot arrive a
s:as.!y.
We shall proceed to shnw the humble
Of hogs raised proportionabiy IN Eur"p
and Amerira:-We have before US VIC
Grpgor's Statistics, which contains a II
Bile Of the agriculture aud live stock i,
Europe for 1928 Since then the poI,
la,ion Of Europe has Increased more tina
ten per cent. aud If we add ten per cen
To the live stock, we shall have The fu
amount; fur this species Of stock does no
: increase in densely populated coun.rie
equally with tina. Of other productions
SWine Of Europe