The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-10-27
Present and Future Of Provisions.

Present and Future Of Provisions
The circular of St. Louis packing
house, bearing date October 18th, gives
considerable valuable information re-
specting the provision trade, from which
we extract as follows:
We are about entering upon the plane
of lower hog meats, and the certainty Of
this result cannot be much longer de-
layed.
All commodities and all the products
of the country are tending to lower val.
ues. The great wheat crop Of the last
year leveied that product to the lowest
prices. The large cotton crop of the
last year, and the much larger one Of
the present season, is reducing the rates
on that great commodity prodigiously.
The immense crop of corn now TO be
harvested will cheaper that grain to q
lower point than has been reached
for years past. The large increase Of
hogs the present year, which is now
pretty generally admitted, will iDeVfta-
bly, lead to cheap hog meats the
coming season, and must have pow
erful influence upon the price Of live
hogs this fall and winter for packing
The influence of the falling price of the
gold premium will also enter into the
scale AS prices were inflated by the
rise Of the premium of gold, 80 they
will be reduced, as the premium re-
cedes For this we must prepare, and
be prepared for the event. We 10 d
all the foregoing propositions to be self.
evident facts. .. d.
Now, as to the increase of hogs. let
US examine the proofs. The official
returns by the auditors of the States Of
Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, give
the increase Of pigs, six months old on
the first of April, May and June of this:
year, over last year at the same date in
those States, at 100000. The States
Of Indiana, Michi gan, Kentucky, Wis,
consin, Kansas, Colorado and Tennessee
with like per centagc of gain, we may
reasonably conclude, will make an in
crease of another 100000, and probably
the number will far exceed that
This would give an increase Of l.
100000 head of hogs over last year
when the packing of the West was, say
2,60O,550 The addition would give a
crop this season of 4,500,000 hogs for
packing in the West. We submit that
this is no random calculation, and that
it is in perfect consonance with the law
Of cause and effect. The high prices of
hogs the past two years have naturally
led to very largely increased produo,
ton. This we have been expecting to
see, and are prepared for such a result.
But even all this docs not complete the
history We have already Gin our last
circulaf) alluded to the accredited fact,
that good deal of attention is being
paid through the whole South to the
raising of hogs for family use. All
these should be taken into the account
of our packing, and the future of the he
business, as every hog so raised will
displace the product of another in the
West, cured for Southern consumption;
and they, in the aggregate, will consld-
erably enlarge the amount OF the pro-
duct the coming year We must not
either forget the great States of New
York, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
which will also have vastly increased
the growing Of hogs; and they will ap-
pear in tho markets Of New York city,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Baltimore,