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at which exportation has already been going on, about four hundred and 

 fifty million pounds of bacon, hams, pork, and lard. Up to the eleventh 

 of August of this year, from the port of New York alone, there had been 

 exported two hundred and fifty-seven million nine hundred and five 

 thousand five hundred and seventy-four pounds of bacon, hams, and lard, 



_ry yeai. 



There is no reason why California should not share in the trade, pro- 

 vided she produced the article needed. A dozen years ago, the States 

 east of the Mississippi, Southern .Russia, and the Baltic provinces of 

 Prussia, monopolized the wheat market of Great Britain. Last year 

 California outdistanced every one; this year she will do so much more. 

 The price which American bacon, ham, lard, etc., now averages in Eng- 

 land, is about twelve and a half cents per pound. It costs one cent per 

 pound to bring hogs to San Francisco, say from Visalia; it would cost 

 say one cent per pound to ship to England, leaving five cents to the 

 packer for expenses in packing and for profit, and this ought to pay. 



Thus it may be seen that we are not driven to the necessity of over- 

 stocking the markets of the world with wheat and flour. In hog raising 

 there is one alternative, and one which would, besides relieving the 

 farmer from the fear of not being able to find a market, build up a vast 

 and profitable industry in San Francisco. — [San Francisco Journal of 

 Commerce. 



