The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-17
AMERICAN PIG FAST BECOMING
 MORE POPULAR
Accompanied By Higher Prices He Is Invading
 Entire World.

The American pig is invading every part of the world and at constantly advancing prices. Nearly a billion dollars worth of him passed out of the United States in the calendar year 1919, the quantity being over 2,500,- 900, GOO pounds as against less than l. 000, 900, 900 pounds in the year before the war. Meantime the prices which the people of other parts of the world as well as those of the United States pay are three times as great as inn mediate1y prior to the war, yet the quantity exported continues to in- crease, and the number of countries, colonies and islands calling for our pork products shows no dininution, despite the trebling of price. At the same time our exportation of other meats shows a marked falling off, es- pecially in the last year.
 Our pork products exported in the calendar year 1919 will show, ac- cording to a statement by The Ma tional City Bank of New York, a grand total of approximately $S50,- 000,000 against a little over $10o,- OO0,O0O in the fiscal year 1914, all of which preceded the war. The quan- tity exported aggregates about 2,6O0,
 000,000 pounds against a little less than 1,000,000,000 pounds in 1914, and the average price per pound about 32 cents as against approxi- mately 12 cents per pound in 1914. The advance has continued year by year and month by month and the export prices at the present time are about three times as much as those of 1914, the average export price Of bacon and hams in October 1919, the latest available figures, having been 33 cents per pound as against 29 cents per pound in October 1918, and an average of 12 cents per pound dur ing the fiscal year 1913.
 This advance of practically 200 per cent in the export prices is apparently only in Keeping with the advance in farm values of the animal, since the figures of the Department of Agri- culture indicate that the farm value of the average hog, big and little, was in 1912 SS, and at the beginning of 1919 s22.
 Meantime the number of swine on the farms of the country has in creased from 61,000,000 in 1913 to 76,oo0,O0o at the beginning of 1919, and the value from $6O0,000,o00 in 1918 to s1,666,0OO,00 at the begin ming of 1919.
 The increase in price of the farm value of the average pig is greater than that of the average beef animal, the farm valuation per animal, as 1 stated by the Department Of Agrt- culture, having advanced in the period from 1912 to 1919 in the case l of swine about 175 per cent, and l that of "oxen and other cattle' about l 110 per cent, while the value of milch cows advanced about 95 per cent, despite the fact that our exportation of condensed milk has jumped from | a little over $1,341,0O0 in the fiscal year 1914 to approximately s125,o00,- i 900 in the calendar year 1919, and
 the quantity from 16,200,000 pounds
 in 1914 to 75,o0o,000 pounds in 1 1919.
 The U s. has about 70 per cent. l of the swine of the world. l The popularity abroad of our pork products is apparently of a more permanent character than that of our | beef which showed a tremendous in- | crease during the period of war &C., tivities but has greatly declined in | the first year of peace.
 The total exports of fresh beef. 1 which amounted to 14,000.000 lbs.
 in 1918, have dropped to about 210,- ! onn.000 pounds in 1919, and the
 ac.age export price has fallen from i per pound in January 1919 to 21.3 cents per pound in October 1919, the latest available figures as to de- ] tail of beef exports.
 The taste which Europe has de- veloped for our pork products dur ing the war evidently still fingers, for the quantity of bacon sent to thai