The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-02-01
LARD AND PORK.
HOG PRODUCTS CLIMBING HIGHER
AND HIGHER.
Hams are Now on the Upturn--What Mer-
chants Think of this Unusual Jump.
Hog and HOminy Expensive.

Hog and Hom1ny Expensive.
The old order of supply and demand
is being feltin the lard and pork market
Meats have gone bounding up in price,
and there is no provision dealer in the
city who will even make an estimate of
when the price of these two commodities
will stop, as the price bounds up at
every new quotation.
Since November /, the beginning of a
new season in the pork and provision
market, the price has been going up. A
census of tie hogs in sight, however,
shows why this is. The total number of
hogs in sight January Is, 1898, showed
only 1872. 900 against 5,768, 900, deficit
from the supply of the previous year of
over 10000 hogs.
The provision dealers explain this de-
dificit by the tact that last year meats
were very lowin price, and corn was ex-
ceedingly high. The persons VINO the
year before sowed their corn and raised
hogs have this year let all of the corn go
athigh prices, and as consequence no
hogs were raised.
A comparison of last years and this
years prices of meats will readily show
how the price has bounded up in twelve
m 3nths, but it needs to be explained that
the greater part of this rise in price has
occurred within the past month.
A year ago light weight live hogs sold
in Chicago for 81 and 81 40, and heavy
ones for 81 and $3.50 The same hogs
today are bringing, light weight 81 10 t.
$7.55, heavy ones 1925 to $3.50.
Mess pork sold last year at from Sill
| 374 to S11.50 per barre, and could easily
be secured at that figure. This year the
same meats are worth from $500 to
$1S624 per barrel, and are scarce at that
price. Short ibbed sides have kept pace
with the more expensive meats, and we
| find the quotations higher. Last year
short ribbed sides were 1915 and $500
per hundred pounds. Today they can't
be purchased for less than $40 per hun
bred pounds, and the better quality COM
mands the better price of 5000.
Hams are also higher and scarcer than
| they have been before in a long time,
and, like all other parts of the great
| American hog, are still going up. Hams
| that last year cost from $3.50 to $3.50
per hundred pounds are now sold at
from $14.50 to $3.50 for the same
| Shoulders are Keeping pace WIN tue1r
first cousin, the ham, and those that
last year brought $5.623 and 1918 per
| hundred pounds are now considered
cheap at 81 and S11.25.
The above are wholesale prices. OF
course the retailer tacks on his extra
price every time the wholesaler raises
the price on ham and the consumer pays
the difference.
Clear ribbed pork sides now retail at
l3c., the same so per cent. raise as the
VIII lesaler has been forced to pay. Hams
are IS and 10 cents per pound atretail.
Lard, too, is bounding up in price.
There are two reasons for this; first, the
hogs are not here TO make the lard from,
and second, the hogs that are killed are
all light and yield an exceedingly small
quantity of lrd The lard quotations
at present are: Prime contract lard S10.-
50 per hundred pounds, against quota
lion Of S634 year ago Lard now re-
tails at Is cents per pound straight.
The above are the prices for today.
Tomorrow, if the rate of increase that
has held good for the past week is kept
.up, another raise in price of both lard
and meats can be looked for by house
wives, who feel blue now every time they
look at the plice of the above articles on
their account books.