AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. 



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•* The aggregate weights of similar numbers of hogs, this season and last, 

 packed at points from whence the averages were furnished, compare as follows : 



" 1862-'63, pounds 782, GOl, 236 



" 1803-64. pounds 684, 775, 632 



" Decrease 97, 825, 604 



" This is equal to about 12 J per cent., which, added to the decrease in the 

 number packed in the west, is as follows : 



" Per cent, of decrease in number - 19^ 



" Per cent, of decrease in weight 12i 



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If to the decrease in the number packed in the west we add that of the num- 

 ber shipped by Pittsburg and Dunkirk, the entire decrease in number would be 

 about '22j^j per cent. 



The percentage decrease of lard is as follows : 



1862-'63, pounds 118, 016, 080 



1863-64, pounds ' 72, 874, 468 



Decrease in weight 45, 141, 612 



Being a fraction over 38 per cent. The head and gut lard is not included in 

 this estimate. This was about 8 pounds per hog this season, and 12 pounds 

 last. The decrease, then, is as follows : 



In number, per cent 22 jg- 



In weight, per cent 12^ 



In lard, per cent 38 



It may be proper to add that the above table of the number packed does not 

 indicate the number raised in a State. Indiana is the greatest hoar-irrowincf 

 State, Illinois second, Ohio third, Kentucky fourth, Iowa fifth, and Missouri 

 sixth, at this time. In 1859 Indiana was the first, Missouri second, Kentucky 

 third, Illinois fourth, Ohio fifth, and Pennsylvania sixth. 



PRICE OF HOGS AT CIN'CIXKATI. 



The following table shows the average price per 100 pounds of hogs at Cin- 

 cinnati for the last ten years : 



1854-'55 $4 45f 



1855-'56 6 04| 



1856-'57 ^ 6 23| 



ie57-'58 5 16i 



1858-'59 6 58i 



1859-'60 S6 21i 



1880-'61 5 97 



1861-'62 .«. 3 28t 



1862-'63 4 45 



1863-'64 7 OOi 



