IMTORTAiXCE, DISTKIDLTION, MARKETS, NALLES 3 



States Xumb( r of Swine 



Tennessee 1.502,000 



Alichigan 1.388,000 



Total 38.848,000 



DISTRIBUTION OF SWINE IN THE UNITED STATES 



From the foregoing- it is seen that the bulk of the 

 surplus swine of the world — the surplus from which 

 armies, navies, and nations less fortunate than ours are 

 fed — is grown in a strip of the United States, the prin- 

 cipal waters of which find their outlets to the sea through 

 the Mississippi river. The great swine states also coin- 

 cide remarkably with the great corn states. It will be 

 seen in the map above that in numbers the swine of 

 America are gathered about a center in the state of Iowa. 

 All of the great corn states show totals amounting to 

 millir^ns. The southern, eastern and far western states 

 comprise a territory showing a much smaller number of 



