The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-01
A,nerican ProyisT0ng,


Provisions continue heavy. Ohio Pork, mess, $l3i
Prime $40 % New York Mess, sis 50; Pine $40 IS.
Since last quotations. we have to report decline in
prices, unexpectedly. We have about the same
It supposed by large dealers early in the
son. Butter would fall short least third from
last year; and upon the best information get
Butter will be no higher for monthslto come if at all
Cheese has also declined We quote Butter prime, Ia;
tern in casks, s. 7ldo do in boxes Il 7i~Eastern
10, in boxes Lard in bbls. 81 do in kegs, 81
81 cts
There appears to be moderate business doing in Bal
more On the Goth inst prices remained as before quoted
viz; old mess pork $40 6oa s3 as prime $i new mess
at slUa $40 so No. So SO So rs, aud prime SO IS
So 90 Sales Of 80 bbls mess beef at $40 SO 20 bbls
had been "a very limited business doing in bacon but
sales Of small parcels continued to be made at former
and hams at 81 cents Sales of Baltimore cured
shoulders at cents of sides at cents. Sales Of Sc.
vera hundred hams at cents The demand for lard
rather less active We quote both western and city
rendered in kegs at 81 81 cents, and in bbs at a st
cen s. A sale Of so bbls. at cents, less discount
The trade Of America in provisions, and particularly
in the articles of pork and lard has rapidly been
Increasing in Importance and magnitude The great re-
OF the west says the Baltimore 7meriean, yield
ing immense quantities of Indian corn have supplied
food for swine to such extent that these animals have
become the greatest Of OF our chief agri-
cultural staples Too bulky to be transported to distant
markets with much prospect Of profit even i markets
existed which could be had our maze mas re-
tanned original native characteristic an American
grain both to growth and consumption Foreigners
/ IT, ~
the forms Of pork bacon and lard the Indian Of this
country finds its abroad and constitutes an
article of commerce The census returns OF sso sne
at 20 sol 1893 OF this number more than one hall belong
ed 10 eight StstesTennessee Kentucky, Ohio Indiana
illinois, Missouri Mississippi and Alabama. Those states
which grow Indian must largely have the greatest
number Of Swine II is estm ted that the hogs in the
United States consume annually some two hundred mil
hons bushels Of II is further estimated that the
value Of these hogs amounts to than hundred
nd sixty millions dollars three times the value of
& thf ent ire
hogs killed annually this country cannot be
no estimate of the number killed can be we'll formed
rom the amount Of the existing stock The domestic
consumption Of pork is mmense and this forms an item
separate and distinguished rcm the staple Of pork as an
article Of 1t is supposed that for the year
lsl5 there will have been killed at the various Pork
thousand hogs. As far can be aseertained,
it appears that the demands of commerce re-.
1ure annually about sixth of the whole number Of
swine in the country. Domestic requires many
but statistics fail TO the real number. In COM
parson 18th the countries Of Europe the United states
have as many swine as Russia Austria aud Great Bril-
tain together Yet these three latter countries have
population of hundred and twenty millions OF people
T. ght of our Western States, with population OF six
millions, have many swine as Great Britain France
Prussia and Bavaria, with seventy miiliens Of inhao
II is evident that We are better fed people than
any other the globe. Yet il sdifcut with our over
plus Of provisions, t. find access TO icregn markets
The consumers Of vegetables in Great Britain, Ireland,
France and Spain, 10 whom meat is a luxury, would
thrive much II they could obtain on easy terms our
country IS chiefly demand at tho Atlantic seapots,
for our commercial marine now rapidly appioasn-
ing the lai ges in the world The adventurous
whalemsn, the hardy fisher for cod mackerel the
thou coasters who sail IN every bay and inlet from
the Penobscot to the Rio Giande, all more or less eat
pork Ii serves both bn tier and at with the hsn
and potatoes which they have constantly on hand With
in recent period, considerabl quantities OF American
provisions have been introduced into Great Britain
sailed meats also form staple of the West India trade
With the increase Of our commerce and manufactures
the home market for the Of provisions will con
nue enlarge. Our internal trade, which ID creating
large population engaged in transportation by canal
boats cars steamer and bay and river coasters, must
aid also ia increasing the home market Of the agricu
turist. .
This country is certainly destined to become the
world feeding portion Of creation. America, viii, in
few brief years supply all other nations with their bread
and meat.