The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-03
P0RK-PACKING STATISTICS.
The Business Of the Western Cities Com
pared

An exhaustive statement of the pork
packing business in the Western States is
published in the Cincinnati Price Current
to-day, from which the following is clipped:
The total exports OF hog product from
the United States for The year ending No
vember lst 1878 reached l,O57, 100, 300
pounds, or Al per cent. more than the pre-
vious year and equal to the product of
about ., TI5, 900 hogs. The total number of
hogs packed in the West during this period
was 1883, 420, against 1,6l4 42S during the
preceding twelve months, an increase of
:, 239, ,6Q2 head
The total number Of hogs packed in the
| West during the eight summer months of
| 1873 was O4i, against 2,5l3, 100 the pre-
vious year, being an increase of 834, 9l4.
The packing at the six large cities was
>, 1873 ,6;5, compared with 2O60, 56S in 1877,
other places packed total of Gl9, 400 i'm
| 1878, and i73,55 in 1877. The receipts of
hogs at the seaboard were $40, ,4l6 com
pared with ,449,308 in 1871 an increase of
59l, ,olS The aggregate of Western packing
and seabOarG receipts was 5,2lS 400 in 1878
against 3,392, SIS in 1871
The aggregate amount of meats and pork
held At interior points about the 1st of
March was 10000, o0O pounds, and of lard
13, 700, O00 pounds compared with our ap-
Proclamation last year for the same time, Of
81 100000 pounds of meats and pork, and
10, 800, 900 pounds of lard. At the six large
Western cities, at the seaboard and in
transit there were approximately 3O5, 00O,-
900 pounds Of meatsand pork, against 257,-
COZ, 900 last year. and Of lard 14o, 25O 900
pounds, or 1926 900 tierces, against 81, TO 900
pounds, or 10000 tierces. The aggregate
of the figures for the West and the Fast
show for this season 4l50O0, 900 pounds of
meats and pork, and 153 $50, 600 pounds of
lard, against 38S. 100000 pounds of meats
and pork, and 1000, 000 pounds..of lard last
year-Or about 100, 900, 900 pounds more of
product of kinds this season than at same
time last year. This is the product of 525,-
600 hogs, while the increased packing was
80 POP head, showing that the product of
1900 hogs of the increase in the winter
packing.
The aggregate exports of hog product
from the United States for the twelve
months ending June 30, 1878, was 007,- |
469 800 pounds, as follows: Bacon, 592 S14,- |
35l pounds; pork, II, Ss9. 225 pounds lard |
342, 1GG 254 pounds.
For the current year, ending June Both, |
the aggregate exports of hog product from |
the United States will show all increase |
OF nearly twenty per cent. as compared |
with the previous year. and fifty-six per |
cent greater than in 1856; the total for
the year will not be much, if any, short of |
l., 100000, 900 pounds, equal to the yield OF
meats and lard from about 6,500, 900 hogs.
In the yield for the entire packing the
lard appears to be Is IA per cent. of the net |
weight, against l7.Os last year, 1878 in
1867, and 1928 in 1856. The aggregate
production during the winter was 294, 1872
35S pounds, equal to S93, 1888 tierces all :. =, !
crease Of 13l 1896 tierces compared with a
year ago.
The returns Of barreled pork made during
the winter show total of 429 800 barrels of |
mess pork, and 523, 56S barrels of all kinds |
being decrease of 1874, 272 barrels of meats
and 1879, 500 barrels decrease of all kinds.