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are found in the highest perfection. Pears, apples, 

 peaches, grapes, and strawberries, are produced in 

 all abundance. During the last year, upwards of 

 200,000 fruit trees were planted in orchards south 

 of Centralia, within six miles of the railroad track : 

 but no matter to what extent they may be multi 

 plied, the demand for fruit will always be in ad 

 vance of the capacity to furnish what is wanted. 



Pork packing has become an immense business 

 in this State, the number of hogs packed in 1862 

 amounting to 1,484,834 head, half a million in ex 

 cess of Ohio, which until the last year or two has 

 stood first among the pork-producing States. The 

 following table, giving the number of hogs packed 

 in seven States in 1862, shows a wonderful result : 



Illinois 1,484,834 



Ohio 981,683 



Indiana 587,528 



Iowa 403,899 



Kentucky 130,920 



Wisconsin 196,745 



Missouri 284,011 



Total 4,069,620 



Illinois is the great stock-raising State of the coun 

 try sending two thousand head of beef cattle a 

 week to the New York market. In the census re 

 turn of 1850 the live stock in Illinois had a valua 

 tion of $24,209,258, and in 1860 it had increased to 

 73,434,621 only two States (New York and Penn 

 sylvania) exceeding that amount of value. The 

 raising of stock for market has been the source of 

 many fortunes in Illinois. The Company have large 



