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are marked differences as to quality and condition, the 

 price varies a little accordingly. The pork from these 

 animals is used to supply the cheaper class of trade, and 

 also for making sausage." 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Roasting pigs are not generally quoted in market re- 

 ports. They reach the market in small numbers and 

 only during the holiday seasons, and their price varies 

 greatly 



Feeders are hogs bought on the market and taken back 

 to the country to be further fed, a practice which is 

 followed only to a very limited extent. 



Governments are hogs rejected by the government in- 

 spector as not sound in every respect. "They are usually 

 bought up by a local dealer and taken to one of the 

 smaller packing houses where they are slaughtered 

 under the supervision of an inspector. If found to be 

 affected so as to make their flesh unfit for human food, 

 they are condemned, slaughtered, and tanked. The tank 

 is a large, steam-tight receptacle, like a steam boiler, in 

 which the lard is rendered under steam pressure. This 

 high degree of heat destroys all disease germs with 

 which the diseased carcass may have been affected. The 

 product of the tank is converted into grease and ferti- 

 lizer." 



"The commission men who sell the stock as it comes to 

 the yards, and the speculators who handle part of it, pay 

 nothing for their privilege of doing business in the yards. 

 They hold their respective positions by common consent 

 and their respective pens by keeping hogs in them." 



