The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-09-23
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Prices Current, paid an average of about 81
SOC. net for pork, averaging over 200 lbs.
sold mine that season for $4 75c, They
went under 200 lbs net. By computation,
it is generally agreed that, twenty bushe Is
of corn, fed iudciously to hog, weighing
100 lbs. gross, (the average weight of those
Roosa bought to feed on his slop,) will make
him net $50 lbs. by killing time. That is
also Mr.. ROosa's opinion. #.
Now, sir, $50 lbs. of pork at 81 so
equal to. ..................... Sll 20
20 bush. corn at &c., equal to SIS 80
lOOlbs. hog, gross, at SO 81,
equal TO O...........,.... 81
- SO 81
The farmer would gain by feeding, 50 81
In the year 1859, Roosa paid, gross, for
hogs weighing 100 lbs. on an average, $4
1870 ,and for corn 39 cents bushel. They
brought, in Cincinnati, net Sc SOC.
l sold mine for So SOC.
. Then, $50 lbs. at Sc so, equal to-. .$16 25
Hog, 100 lbs, sold Distiller, at 81 l28
90 bush. corn, at $780,, equal to 60
Balance to farmers In favor Of
feeding. ................. 4 52s
In the above statement, / suppose the
price Of the hogs and feeding to balance the
expense of hauling corn to Distillers, and
driving the hogs; which, l think, is nearly
fair estimate.
Supposing $50 farmers had on hand in the
fall 20 stock hogs each, in Warren county,
and Mr.. Roosa, as Distillers contend, could
fatten Just as much pork after distillation
as before, with the corn-should buy those
hogs and their corn, it is evident they would
have cleared, in 1851, $6,SiO; and in the
year 1852, the snug little sum of $l3560;
and it is just as clear that those $50 farmers
would have saved it by keeping their stock
hogs and corn, and feeding them themselves.
have no doubt but the same rule would
apply to other Distillers, and the farming
interest in general Throughout that State,
with similar argument IN favor Of farmers
feeding and killing their own hogs. The
statement is erroneous that the prohibition
of the distillation ofspiritous liquors in this
State would inure the Farming interest.
The above figures are not founded OH hy-
pothesis, but from authentic documents, at
least so far as this county is concerned
Roosa's distillery controlling the prices in
this respect.
A few years ago, neighbor of mine,
bought so hogs OF Mr.. Roosa, paying him
an advance on what he gave for them to the
farmers, and drove them home sometime in
October, think. He fed them on his own
corn, and made handsome speculation by
the purchase and transaction. Now, if
Farmer sells hogs to Distiller, at such a
price that the Distiller can realize profit
by selling them back to another Farmer,
and the Farmer buying them at premium
of the Dstiller, still makes money by fatting
them on corn, is it not clear that the Origi-
nal owner would have acted wisely in fat
ting them himself? Certainly it is. 1t is a
fact too, that the price of good article of
corn-fed pork is reduced from the fact of its
coming into market with the bloated, oily,
deteriorated article from the distilleries.
Those then who do not sell to the Distiler,
but fatten their own hogs, suffer in proper
tion as the price of good pork is thus re-
duced. And what is the nature Of the traf-
fc. The farming community, by toll and
industry for instance, raise 10000 bushels
VI COIh anu VuO HOSS' AHOJ SOAA UhO SolH
and hogs to Distillers at an average loss of
So 3711Sc. head, or some $l6 81, as shown
above. The Distiller extracts from the corn,
while fattening the hogs, deadly, fiery
poison, wholly inDutritiouF' of no earthly
good to the consumer, but under whose
maddeniDg, demoralizing, and blighting in
fuence, our poor-houses and hospital are
filled, our jails and penitentiaries are crowd
ed with the victims of crimes, sometimes
too horrible to mention; and those very
farmers made to pay tax of IA cents on
100 dollars, for the purpose of keeping up
those poOr-houses and penitentiaries, and
defraying the costs of prosecutions arising
under the use of alcohol. And how is the
farmer paid for his corn and hogs-with the
price of blood in many cases with the very
money that has gone from the pocket of a
kind and unsuspecting father, to whet up
the assassn's knife in the hands Of his son;
that has beguiled the unwary husband and
father, and led him, with irresistible sweep,
through all the sinuous paths of crime and
degradation, to drunkard's grave, and