REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



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The following table shows the uumbers of swine in Eiiropeaa coun- 

 tries: 



Coontiles. 



Austria 



Hungary 



Belgium 



Doiimark 



Franco 



Ooi-many 



Great Britain ^ 



Ireland 



lale of Man, &,c 



G-reece 



Italy 



Yean. 



1880 

 1880 

 1880 

 1881 

 1880 

 1883 

 1884 

 1884 

 1884 

 1875 

 1881 



Swine. 



2,721, 



4, 160, 



646, 



527, 



5, 665, 



9, 205, 



2,684, 



1, 300, 



15, 



179, 



1,163, 



Coontriea. 



fTetherlands 



Portugal ., 



Boamania 



Bnssia in Europe 



ServlA 



Spain 



Ilnland 



Sweden ......... 



Norway 



Switzerland 



Tears. 



1882 

 1882 

 1873 

 1877 

 1882 

 1878 



iseo 



1882 

 1875 

 1876 



Swine. 



403, GIS 



971, 085 



837, 000 



10, 839, C93 



1, 067, 940 



2, 348, 602 



154, 338 



430, 648 



101, 020 



334, 515 



The extraordinary increase of our exportation in the last half of the 

 decade from 1871 to 1880 was due to the harvest failures of that period 

 in Europe and the uniformly large corn crops of this country. The re- 

 sult was a greater aggregate value of exports in five years than in the 

 fifty years from 1821 to 1870. The exhibit is as follows : 



Valuei of exports of hogs and hog products, by decades, 1821 to 1881. 



• Not including hogs ; live animals not being separately given. 



In the first twenty years in this long period the advance was slow, 

 1 liough the aggregate value in no year fell below $1,000,000. A mni kol 

 iicceleration is observed in the latter part of the third decade, follo\v(.H) 

 by a temporary retrograde, and that by a few years of larger exporta 

 lion in the fourth. In the last twenty years, however, the development 

 of exportation has been phenomenal. 



The average annual exportation for twenty-five years, including hogs 

 with pork products, has been 530,000,000 pounds. If 200 pounds be 

 taken as the average cured product of a hog, as it is very nearly, the 

 average requirement of hogs for exportation has been 2,650,000. The 



