The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-11-28
IOWA FIRST IN HOGS,
SEVENTH IN PACKING
New York City Does More OF
the Latter Than Does This
Entire State.

Washington. Special: The census
report on the Strengthening and meat
packing industry for 1906 is just out,
and IT shows some marvellous facts that
nobody would imagine. For instance:
The city Of New York does more
packing that the whole state of Iowa
in fact, nearly twice as much. Most
of this is done in Manhattan and
the Bronx, but so fast is the industry
growing in Brooklyn that that division
led al cities OF the union in the rate
OF increase.
Again: Nobody would hesitate about
aging that Illinois leads all the states:
but what state comes second? Plainly
enough, Missouri, with the big centers
of st. Louis, Kansas City and st. Jo-
seph. But no; the guess is wrong.
Kansas is second, and Missouri is not
even third. New York state comes
third and Missouri fourth.
Ahead in Hogs.
Iowa produces more hogs thar any
othe" state, n more OF the best beef
cattle; yet 1t ranks only seventh in
packing, and does only 3.3 per cent.
of the packing of the n 1t had
exactly tho same percentage in 1900,
but 1t has lost since 1895, when 1t had
AZ per cent. Moreover, the number
OF establishments in Iowa has fallen
from twenty seven to nineteen since
1900.
W" AOihJ Win 10 NtCduClJ dBT1-
culture, has 8 per cent. OF the total
business for 1906, a gain OF almost l
per cent. since 1900.
The great packing centers Of Kan
sas City, Kas., South Omaha, Sioux
City, Cedar Rapids, Ottumwa. Cam
bridge, Mass, (Which does more pack
ing than Sioux City and Jersey City,
do not get their names into the big
tabulations showing the development
Of she industry. because the meat trust
would not consent. To list these cities
separately, IL was said. would make
1t possible for competitors to figure
out the business OF separate establish
ments. so these cities are punched to-
gether as a single item in the table
as AL other cities Of this class
that Is, of the first class-and a con-
solidated total given for them. It
seems rather hard that this list of
towns, in almost all OF which packing
Is the leading industry, should prac-
ucally mot get their names in the
paper" in connection with the busi-
LEGS.
In the order of their packing output.
the cities rank thus: Chicago, Kansas
city, Kas.; South Omaha. New York,
st. Joseph, East st. Louis, Indianapolis,
Somerville. Mass: st. Louis, Buffalo,
Milwaukee Including Cudahy. Wis.,,
Cincinnati. Philadelphia, Cleveland,
Cambridge. San Francisco. Sioux CITY,
'J my DLOOhlyl AllG-
cheney, Cedar Rapids, Baltimore, De-
troit, Louisville.
Decrease in Nebraska.
These twenty-five cities contained 45
per cent. of the great establishments,
81 per cent. Of the capital invested. SO
per cent. of the wage earners, and SO
per cent. of the products. Chicago alone
produced 35 per cent. OF the products
OF this entire group Of cities.
Capital 10 Enormous.
For the entire business OF the cOun-
try 929 establishments are listed. with
$2S7 100000 capital in 1905 against $685.
0OC, 900 in 1900, SIG, 900, 900 In 1890 and a.
00O,0OO In 1880. Wages and salaries in
1865 were $54, OO0, 900 against SAB, 500, 900
in 1900 and $29, 000, 900 i'm 1890. Materials
used We're worth $805, 900, 900 in 1905.
1852, 100000 in 1900, $3.50, 900, 900 in 1890
n 1857, 000, 900 in 1880. Products were
worth 1913. 900, 1000 in 1905, 1888, 900, 900 in
1900. 1851, zoo, 900 in 1891, and $3O3, 600. OOO
in 1885,.
Iowa produces about ~one-seventh OF
the hogs of the country. and does about
oTfe-thirtieth of the packing.
f!ebrasRa shows a small decrease In
the value or products from 1900 to 1905,
WHICH is accounted for with the ex-
plantation that a large plant was Idle,
Indiana dropped from fifth to ninth
place among the states, because OF the
removal from the state OF a large plant,
Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York
and Texas showed In the order named
the largest increases in the value of
products; in fact over II per cent. of
the total increase of the country was
credited to these five states.
Give Iowa Bad SHOWING.
Owing to the OF compiling
the statistics, Iowa and Nebraska get
peculiarly bad showihgs In this i'm
portant document, which will be cir
culated to Libraries and institutions all
over the world. 1t is extremely unfair
to these two great live stock states TO
be almost omitted from such a com
pilation, for that is what happens to
them. II there were a tabuiation of
the numbers of hogs and cattle sun
piled by different states for this In
dustry 1t would place these states in
something like their fair Relationship
to 1t. But with their packing plants
grouped together as "all other cities
and with no showing of their suppIies
OF material for the industry. thew ara
badly treated. A few vigorous protests
from state authorities and the cham
bers Of commerce Of places like Omaha,
sioux City. Cedar Rapids and Ottumws
addressed to the director of the census