H. C State College 



SWINE IN AMERICA. 



CHAPTER I. 



Their Numbers^ Importance, Distribution, 

 Markets and Values. 



America, and especially the United States, is the great 

 swine-producing region of the world. The principal seat 

 of this industry is the Mississippi valley, where Indian 

 corn is grown in greatest abundance and at least expense. 

 Nowhere else are the conditions so favorable ; nowhere 

 else are grain and pasturage, the basis of all economical 

 meat production, grown in such profusion or to such 

 a(l\antage. It is this territory to which frequent allusion 

 is made in this volume as the corn belt. It is the corn- 

 tield. not only of America, but of the world. 



North America has in round numbers 58,000,000 

 swine, of which 95 per cent are in the United States 

 and 5 per cent in Canada. These constitute almost half 

 the hogs in the world. The United Kingdom has but 

 about 3.500,000. The wilue of the swine industry to 

 the United States is graphically represented below by 

 the one item of its surplus products exported each year 

 to other countries. The enormous value of these 

 amounts to $130,000,000 annually. 



