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PORK PACKING: 
The following quotations relative to pork packing in Cincinnati are from the 
Cincinnati Price Current : 
The whole number reported by the packers is 366,431 head, which does not include those 
packed in October. The following shows the whole number of hogs packed in this city for 
nine years: 
Years. No. Years ° 
HAG). Ue eee RE Be BBS see teeotcr Ee) el cl NES! Be ae rineeeen peepee 350, 600 
Rote eca= cba tcp ae See oe _ AEA RY) |i te 110) Sey Ne A A era a se 354, 079 
WRG erect eer See eee ewe AAPA ILS teenth sos cose eee Soto es a sas 462, 600 
[SITES ae RRR SS ae ee GOS VASP LEOSuee eh dala: team saiee «acess 366, 481 
PRB eo eclatr oie orca ws Seceiee 370, 623 
The following were the average weight and yield of leaf lard per hog for the past nine 
seasons : : 
Xeng Average | Yield of Went Average | Yield of 
: weight. lard. i weight. lard. 
Lhs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 
1592 GO. <-|2 = sista n o=0 189 23 186465 =. sees. - = 2014 242 
TSG0 SONS joo nse es 22135 O63 elsbo— 06 sacee sees <4 23837 Bory 
PSGI=G2\ ee sas 222 22422 20 1P Wil @OO— 64) sb k jen uae 2327 30 ry 
HEG2— Opi. 22s soso 54| We SOS 2oge \dSG¢— G8 22025 e— 55 21033, 2535 
1863-64 ....- me ee 881} 234 
The following shows the average price of hogs per cental, net, the last fifteen seasons : 
Di PN aes! ap eT te Se AN BGI IGR «iawn ane yale $3 282 
eel gy) ecg ca bef By OSA BBR GSI Ibi A wba 8 Sale 4 45 
cS ai ET ERS ll arns 8) OAR WABGSG4 a Laat 7 004 
TRC a soc w atin 6288) lh LBA 168 i 2h ait ta tah Re 14 624 
Be aA mig eles eg lee wie By) Led wees 66 (252s er ee 11 908 
(i 6 CTE EN "alse: aS asta pees ee koe Mate ane 6 ce! Mae 
eM oo es Je eh a hb wale 5 O04 BER MER Re tater ao, 8 25 
PTE OREO ced uisssetiaas as 5 97 
The following statement relative to pork packing at Chicago is from Messrs. 
Millwood & Co.’s circular of February 22: 
We have received the returns from some twenty-three packers, comprising the largest and 
about the smallest in the city. Their packing sums up about 450,000 head; their average 
net weight, 190} pounds: and their average yield of lard, 27.36 pounds per head. We have 
yet some twenty packers to hear from, and we calculate their returns will increase the total 
packing to nearly, if not quite, 800,000 head, but there is little chance of any change in 
the average weight of the hogs or the yield of lard per head. Last year the average weight 
was 227% and the average yield of lard 38 pounds per head. Calculating our present year’s 
packing at 800,000 head, against 635,732 last year, we should have some 7,500,000 pounds 
more weight than we had then, but the yield of lard would be some 6,750 tierces less than 
was made last season. The packing to the present time sums up 772,727, against 633,000 
in 1867 and 463,450 in 1866 Several of the dressed-hog packers are still at work. Some 
are pene 200 to 500 daily, aud their operations retard the summing up of the season’s 
packing. 
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