Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-11-17

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which are generated by the dccom-
position Of these matters-but, with
like care and skill, may be convert
ed into vegetables, and afterwards
into new animal matters. TO econ
omize and apply all these fcrtilizing
materials is the province and the
duty of the husbandman.
Figures and Estimates Of tho Hog
Crop.
From the ST. Louis Republican, Nov. 1.
Although the regular packing
season commences to-day we hear
of but little of preparations for
slaughter, and no decided state
ments are yet made by packers as
to the prices at which they propose
to open the market. AS starting
point to the computation of the
number of hogs slaughtered here,
we have obtained statements from
the three houses which have been
at work during October, which foot
up total Of 1900 head killed in
that month.
In this connection we present the
following table showing the number
Of hogs in the Western States ma
king returns through assessors,
compiled for the Cincinnati Gozette,
by Mr.. U. S. Jones. With the ex-
| ception Of Iowa, all these figures
have been presented through the
Republican, this journal having
collected the information as each
auditor made his report, and the
figures used are probably taken d.
rect from our columns. The com-
parison instituted is as follows:
1871. 1870. 1869.
Ohio. &, 164. 4O3 1,72O,113 1864
Kentucky. 914,SS6 91O.62G 1865
Illinois. 2,93s, 749 2,22O,651 2,O36, 3O4
| Iowa. ..1 ,OOS,67l 789,19O 679.7O3
Missouri z, 514,997 2,195,54I 1891, 1854
Total. .9,541,706 7,S36,121 6,87s,9Ol
This shows an increase over last
year Of 27l per cent. in these
| States.
AS we have heretofore pointed
out, it does not necessarily follow
that the increase noted in the as
SCISSORS returns given above, remain
to be slaughtered during the pack
ing season. Throughout the year
there has been a strong demand for
| fresh meats, and with hogs at to
5 cents per pound gross, fresh pork
has been a strong competitor with
beef in the fresh meat markets of
the Western as well as Eastern
cities. We have essayed to collect
statistical information Of this con-
sumption which would supplement
the returns of the assessors as Civ
en- above; but owing to direct pur-
chases in interior points of the
West by eastern butchers and their
agents have been unable to render
the figures more than the basis Of
conjecture. Enough, however, is
shown in our own market returns to
fully Justify a belief that the crop of
hogs will not exceed that Of last
year; in other words, that the ex-
cess shown by the assessors returns
have already been fully accounted
for in the receipts Of live hogs
Thus at St. Louis up to the first of
September we had received l4l,7l2
live hogs against 66,s76 up to the
same time in 1870, the excess of
summer consumption 1886 more
than the excess for slaughter to be
deducted from the assessors returns
for the State of Missouri. At Chi
cago, in the four months ending the
lst of July, the excess Of receipts
as conn ared with the same time in
1870 was 77,4s7, and at Cincinnati
the excess for the same period was
1912. The total excess Of hogs
this year over last is about l,700,-
600, and this would indicate an cx-
cess for slaughter Of about 100000.
AS shown above, with returns from
St. Louis Of only six months, and
from Chicago and Cincinnati of
only four months, over one-fourth
of this excess was taken for con
sumption of fresh meats. 1t is
THERETO fairly deducible that if all
the shipments from the interior
points of Ohio, from indianapolis
and other points in Indiana and
Michigan and the increased con
sumption at Western cities, should
be added in that the remainder of
the 900. 900 excess would be fully
accounted for and possibly that the
balance would be on the other side
of the ledger.
A writer in the Country Gentle
man tells how he makes cheap
ice house so that ice may be kept
with very little expense. He says:
Throw down a dozen or two old