Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-16
Annual Statement OF Pork Packing
nm the West.

The Cincinnati Price Current. OF the 18Th
hst publishes the result Of pork packing Of the
present. season. II says
The result j. Wonderul The number OF hogs
pack d this season. u will be seen i over four
million head. being an increase over the packing
OF toe season 1872 Of over q million and
quarter. namely. 357 lei. being IN increase Of
az 10Th per cent The decrease in weight Is
~ per cent leaving net Increase Of over
- 3 per cent compared with last year =
The yield cl leaf lard Is i've pounds Ter boz less
than il was n ls6i-2. but owing TO the sres, in
crease in the nsmber OF hogs slaughtered, there
Is an absolute Increase IN qusntity OF 2Il2 per
cent, over LAST season In these comparisons. we
do not include the Tennessee packing last season
Ii vii be seen that the great in:.etse vas 10
that section OF the West tributary 10 Chicago,
but OF all that section. IN no place was that IN
crease so N .rked as IN Iowa. and our cOrrespon
dents ia that State say that fully one halfot the
hogs packed IN Chicago. we're shipped from
thence. aud explain the enormous mere ase IN this
way. The corn crop in that State the past two
wears. was an unusually good one. but owing 70
the blockade ofthe Mississippi. the usual channel
or outlet to rket, and the low price. the artl-
Gle did hot admit OF transportation to the East. 1t
WAS therefore a. matter OF necessity iei 10 hogs
TO an extent unusual, aud which would not have
been the case had market been accessible
This APPLIES not only to Iowa but TO that por-
ton OF llnois bordering upon the upper Mississippi
Owing TO the great speculation in, ana high rate
OF gold remuBerative prices were obtained, and
which proved OF n much advantage TO the feed
ers. it the currency was down TO specie basis
The rise in gold affected none but those who use
foreign goods and OF these the agricultural class
e. use but little.
1t will he seen that there Is large increase in
all the States but Kentucky. and in that State
there is decrease. but this is not wonderful
and the surprise is that the packing along The
Ohio was ~ large as it has been. owing TO the
disturbed state OF affairs and the repeated mena
,es OF the Rebels, along the border.
| When the season opened, owing to the large
stock of barrel and bulk meat on hand, and
which hid become next To- unsaleable, the i'm
preston was general that the product of the hog
crop, which the trade then did not suppose would
exceed that OF the previous season. and, ia MANY
cases that il would not come up 10 II. should be
packed in shape Tor foreign mlFkets, as but a
small amount would be neeed tor home
market: and, therefore. boxing Sides, Shoulders
and Hams for the Liverpool market. was the
rule throughout. aud it not until in Deccm
Der. that any Of consequence put in bhls for
| a home market, This naturally lei to shipments
OF boxed meats abroad to an extent vastly
greather than the previous season; and owing to
the high premium on gold and sterling exchange
this meat furnished in the foreign mlrkets Al
prices below the previous year, and which ha.
induced a largely increased consumption IN
England France, Germany, Holland and Den
mark.
The amount Of Mess Pork packed has BEEN
small unusually so. We have no returns ON
this point to en- ible us TO make any estimate 4 p
preaching accuracy, but we think it not over
one third the amount packed the previous sea
son The scarcity and high price of cooperagt
had some Influence in q miniShinc The amount. A
good deal of that packed in barrels was Prime
Mes--anticipaiing an army demand.
List iSon, owing to the very low price anC
the unsettled state of The public mind. and the
want of confidence ia the currency. an unusua
number OF hogs packed by farmers anC
country merchants, a. stated in our last an
nual report: this season this almost univer
sally avoided as the packing done in this wal
last seISon the sequel has shown, proved mos
unwise. and gener lly resulted in heavy losses t,
J the parties, because the meat was generally un
sIleable
The yield of Lard given below is what's Gale,
Leaf Lard only. In many places the create
portion of the hogs rendered into Lard, bu
} this not done generally it was last SEA
l son. which was partly owing to the fact that thu
hogs were not well fatted, and partly To tn
higher prices par, for them Lard was consider
. ell lower in proportion than the meat, and henc
it was bought and is held on speculation in
similar manner to what Moss Pork WAS last sea
, SON The shipments to foreign countries hav
2 been large.
The following the results of pork packing