Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-02-11
From st. louis Republican
Pork Packing.

FAYLTTE, Mo. Jan. 25.
The number of hogs packed at Glasgow
this season. will scarcely reach 1000 head
averaging 100 lbs.
Last season there were about 5000 pack
ed at Glasgow.
GALExA, Ills, jan. 26.
The number of hogs packed in our citv
will not evceed 1000 head, against =
head last season; the average 1000
els lbs. The hog crop j. Eight about
and Iowa, and thu j.. northern Illinois
near us. is ~ .. portion Of Wisconsin
hogs - scldedly short. There are no
ut this season at other points in our
.,c,nity. Nearly eli the hogs are wanted
for home consumption.
LEXINGTON, Mo-, Jan. 81.
5000 hogs slaughtered here this season.
average waight 1913 lbs: yield of lard very
small. No hogs packed, or comparatively
none anywhere in this upper country.
SmAwNEETowN, Ills, Jan. 81.
Below l hand you a statement as near as
l can give. am now done slaughtering.
Hogs. lbs.
Last year. "a $50 1, SOC, 5i7-aversging i79 lbs net
This season IL 500 2,Ool ss2-averaging $50 ID, net.
TRlcE's LANDING, Tenn, Jan. 81.
Pork packir g at this place and GAINESVILLE
closed about two weeks since.
Number of hogs packed here this season
and at GAINESVILLE exceeds the number last
year 1881.
CANTON, Ills, Jan. 90.
In answer to your circular of the Sth inst.
would say-the number of hogs packed at
this point will be about 10000; average
weight about $50 lbs.
FLORENCE, Jan. %.
The number of hogs packed at this place
is 3~55-average weight 21O lbs-yield OF
lard about 10 per cent. This point ought
to pack from l 800 to 1000 hogs, but no ar
rangements were made in time to pack
more.
SrRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 81, 1858
We have closed our packing here for the
i. season, with the following result:
} Cut and padked here, $4,000 head aver
age weight, 22O lbs; about one Thousand
boxes of middles packed here for the Eng
) fish market We fail short from the crease
in weight is from 3 to 4 lbs to the hog.
BoNArARrE, Iowa, Jan. IL, 1858.
There was no pork packed here this sea-
, son.
WAvERLY, Mo-, Jan. IL, 1853.
In reply to yours, We have to state tha
no hogs have been packed at this point thi
season.
De So1o, ILL.,, Jan. 20, 1858.
! 5000 hogs cut will average IT'S lbs
. the heaviest hogs of this season. 65S lbs
' one lot of hog, 81 head. packed here tn
last two seasons, all put up for New Crlean
o market.
CARBoNDALE, ILL.,, Jan. 90.
8 In this town and DE Soto, six miles North
there has been killed this season, 4,5O
head of Hogs, average weight about 200 lb:
n Lard 90 per cent; the meat all shipped t
New Orleans in bulk. Last season Their
we're killed in this place and De Soto, $50
head, average weight about the same.
: WARSAW, Mo-, Dosage river,) Jan. 10.
! Only 800 Hogs nave been cut up her.
and the season is over. Their averag
r weight is 1874 lbs, and is 6 lbs on an aver
age lighter than former season. Bacon wi
be made exclusively. The proportion x
Card is short.
OouAwKA, Ill, Jan. 10, 1868.
There will not be over 500 Hogs cut her
, this season, if that, and mostly made int
Bacon for home use. The number ~fattene
in our county will not exceed last year
crop the average weight will be less, an
the Hogs not 50 fat. Corn was much IAN
aged by early frost, and the pork yield
about one-third less lard. We have bee
in the packing business for ten years, an
> have never seen pork yield less lard. Hog
. have been run of, mostly alive, by rail I
New York ano Chicago, both this seaso
and last. Buyers have paid from So t
IS Is, gross weight-equal to 81 net her
CLARExoNr, ILL.,, Jan. %.
We have packed about 1900 head, av
: erage weight 1875 lbs. about usual amour
of lard, cut for home market.
G From what l can learn from other point
g near 10. there is fully the usual amour
packed. and the genral average in weigh
U and lard fully equal to former years.
u BEARDsrowN, Jan. 81.
Yesterday Messrs. Billings. Nolte 4 NJ
Clure packed the last lot of hogs they in
tend slaughtering this season, and on Fri
i, day last Messrs. Chadsey 4 Bro. finished, 6
:" that we may safely report the season &
9 closed in Bearnstown.
a We do not think the increase in the nun
. Der here indicates q increase in the Gro
!. throughout the country. as it must be Dor
in mind that at several points where lare
numbers of hogs have usually been packe.
none have been packed this year. Mered,
cia packed 1000 last year to none this; Ii
+. grange 5000 last to 5000 this; Frederic
5000 last to 1000 this, and many oths
70 points show Q like decrease.