Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-17

ESTIMATED

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The Bulletin reviews the situation" in
! the following manner:
| every little definite information has
been received during the week in reference
| to the packing of the west. The receipts of
! hogs continue quite large at all the princi-
| pal points, and packers have transacted a
| large business Notwithstanding the en-
| HANGED values. 1t may be considered safe
| to estimate the aggregate packing of the
| west to date at 3,000,0 900 hogs Or 30 per cent
of the total slaughter of the season of
| lST2-3. Should the receipts of hogs grad
ually decrease. it is the opinion Of many
| operators in the trade that a sufficient num-
Der may yet be slaughtered to equal the
| aggregate of last season, as the packing
| season is not more than half over yet. At
| quite a number of country points, the
packing has nearly reached the aggregate
| of last season. AT a few, very few hogs
have been packed, while a sufficient num-
Der Of new points have appeared TO more
than offset any reduction on account of
the above. The number of hogs to
be packed does not appear to at
tract as as much attontionas the anticipated
falling of in weight and heyieldof lard. So
for this season our packers have purchased
the best and heaviest hogs offered, as the
demand has been mainly for mess pork ard
the heavier descriptions of sides, and the
average weight up to the present time may
be considered about that of last year. In
some sections of the West serious COM
plants are made Of the falling off in weight
20 to 80 pounds at some points where the
packing reaches 10000 to $4,000 hOgS-par-
ticu.ariy in Indiana. From Louisville, in
formation has been received that the hogs
average 10 to IL pounds lighter than last
season. In the principal corn-raising sec
tons the falling off will be the highest,
and there IS little doubt as the season wears
away that the decrease in weight viii be
more marked, especially II prices reach
such a high range astO induce farmers to
ship off their stock closer than usual.
The yield Of lard Is anticipated to be light
or, which may partially account for the
steady speculative movement ia that arti-
Gle. To sum the whole matter up, if the
aggregate manufacture of hog product in
the West shGUld be lighter than that Of last
season, it Is thought that it will be due
more to 4 falling Off in weight than in the
number of the hogs packed
In New York, spectators in provisions
aIIlGar 10 be utterly at sea. The Nelg York
BuHeiia of Dec. u SAYS.
''The situation Is still more complicated
and anomalous, and the trade are At their
Wis end in attempting to get at anything
tangible for the future, and are compelled
to operate wholly In the dark, with scarcely
Il theoIY even OF the market, or they must
lie stiii until the movement in the West
has eliminated and do nothing. But this
Is next to impossible, as dealers are more
or less all in the same boat and must be
drifled with the current on Jump overheard,
and few have tho courage 80 do this; be-
sides, ,.0 one is yet certain that the present
/ current will prevail, as it has 50 iar this
season and carried to success, although
there are but rev men to be found upon
the Goor Of the New York Exchange who
viii not emphatically declare it to DO the
| widest, most reckless. and dangerous spec
ulation they ever knew, and that it must
! collapse before hong and send the Western
! spoeuhtoTs INTO bankruptcy. when they will
ind their margins upon which they are
quilting the market finally deposited, and