O SWINE IN AMERICA 



carloads, valued at $102,918,041. or an average price 

 of $6.10 per 100 pounds, live weight, for all kinds and 

 qualities, their average weight being 234 pounds. 



The second most extensive hog market in the world, 

 and packing point as well, is Kansas City, Kansas, where, 

 since the establishment of stock yards there in 1871, to 

 December 31, 1907, were received 67,689,255 swine. The 

 receipts in 1907 were 2.923,777 head, having, alive, an 

 average weight of 212 pounds. Of these 2,729,628 head 

 were used by local slaughterers. The largest receipts 

 for a day at Kansas City were 34,334 head; for a week. 

 132,030; for a month, 503,514 (January, 1908); for a 

 year, 3,716,404 head, or 37,752 carloads. Of these but 

 1,570 carloads were reshipped. In the month of Januar}-, 

 1908, the hogs slaughtered by Kansas City packers num- 

 bered 548,264. 



Omaha, like Kansas City, a Missouri river town, is 

 the world's third swine market and packing metropolis. 

 In the 24 years, including 1907. since stock yards were 

 established there the receipts of live hogs have exceeded 

 39.000,000 head. The receipts there for the calendar year 

 1907 were 2,253,652 head, and the number packed was 

 2.150.244. Their average live weight was (about) 250 

 pounds. 



Cincinnati, which fifty years before was supposedly 

 the center, and would remain the headquarters of the 

 swine-growing industry, then leading all the world as a 

 hog-killing point, occupied in 1907 but eighth place in 

 such a list; and seven cities, viz.. Chicago. Kansas City, 

 Kansas, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, Indianapolis and 



