Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-03-16
iowa HOG IN EVIDENCE
One Of the Great Industries of
the Hawkey State
PORCiNES AND THEIR BIG VALUE.
Figures Going to show How Importane
n the Matter of Health Preservation
Hogs Imported and Hogs Exported In
the State for Ten observation-disclosures
Iowa Matters.

At the Polk County Farmers III
stitute, recently held, Hon. o. E. Dou-
| bleday read a paper from which -
taken the following concerning the
Iowa hog:
According to the census report OF
Iowa for 1896. January l. we had D.
O44,577 hogs valued at $23,596,962,
which is 1,14S,746 more hogs than we
had in Iowa January 1, 1898, at when
date. as given on page 1876 of the year
| book for 1897, was only 1926, S31, val
ued at $21 ,7O4,225. The decrease de-
ing occasioned by the scourge OF chol-
era in the year of 1896, in which Ia
! counties lost so per cent or more or
their hogs, and 80 counties lost 20
Der cent or more of their hogs, ana
| the rest of the counties lost from ]
per cent uD to "a per cent OF their
hogs, while in 1897 the farmers in Iowa
| lost on an average OF II per cent OF
all their hogs, but. on account OF the
great fecundity Of the hogs Iowa mas
| led any other state in the Union by
| $40, 729 hogs in 1897, Missouri coming
next with 3,lO5,OIo noss'
Not having any later reliable rep''t
at hand, l will quote from the census
| report of Iowa for 1895, page COZ.
The number of hogs sold for export
was 5,254,090 valued at SAL ,S95,0f
and there was imported 21,922 hogs,
valued at $1444S4 leaving the exports
| in excess of the imports $4,232, los
with a value to the people of the state
of Iowa of SAL, 750, 565. To which ado
| the number of hogs slaughtered for
domestic use, namely, 495,445 head,
valued at S46.301.61 in favor OF the
ported and slaughtered over the num-
her of imported hogs 4,749,535 head,
| valued at s46.3O1.61 in favor fthe
Iowa farmers, exceeding the value OF
the oats crop for 1898 (the yield OF
which was 1884, $40 bushels, at 20
cents per bushel bringing S34,9lS,S35),
| by 81 1922, 776, and nearly equalling the
| net income from the hogs, which is
| S46, 3O1 GIL, and we have $93,773,97S as
| the income to Iowa farmers from on"
| Iowa cattle and hogs, exceeding the
value of corn $2l ,47O,266
The surplus hogs raised in Iowa Tor
| the last ten years was more than any
oth,r state in the United States ralseI
in any one year. The years 1896 ana
1897 excepted would make market
for more corn, counting sixteen BUSH
els of corn, with other feed, to mt hoS
FOR market weighing $50 pounds to
the hoe, than all of the still houses
in the United States would use in the
manufacturing of spirituous liquors
in any one year out of the last ten
years. and there is only six out of the
last thirty-five years that the still
houses in the United States have made
over 100 900 900 gallons of spirits In
any one year, and that was In the
years 1881 and 1882, with the produc-
ton of 119,52S,011 and 107 ,2o5.215 gal
Ions respectively, and the years 1881
and 1892, with the production OF ll9.-
52S, oil and 1O7, 2S3,215 gallons respec-
lively and the years 1890, 81, 80, 33,
with the production Of 1,1Ol, 73S,
| III, 1871 lis, 436,506 and 12S,651,IS2
gallons respectively.
iowa. with it's 55,045 square miles,
had, in 1897, 52O,729 more hogs than
| Missouri or any other state in the
United States.
Iowa, with it's 55,O45 square miles,
has a greater money value In its cat
tie by S14,1O4,35S than Texas, with an
area of 262,290 square miles, or than
any other state in the Union.
Iowa, having an estimated popu-
lation of 1882, 900 people, has a capital
stock of it's banks of s116,S94. 615, or
an average of $3.50 per capita, as Civ
en- in the table on page 5S1 of the first
volume of the report of the comptrol-
Ter of the currency, for the year 1897,
and its per capita of s54.SO is more
than double the average per capita OF
SPAS for the same year for all the
United States. and Iowa exceeded i'll
per capita of bank stock 81 states and
territories of the United States. and
was only exceeded by Is states in its
bpnk stock per capita.