240 PEODUCTS OF THE HOG CROP. 



year. The lard oil is partly sold as such, but in the 

 Eastern States is used to adulterate spermaceti oil, 

 and in France to lower the price of olive oil. It is 

 said, that in this latter country, from 65 to 70 per cent of 

 lard oil is often mixed with the olive oil without detec- 

 tion. The mixture is more apt to deposit stearine, how- 

 ever, than the pure oil, and such an appearance may lead 

 to its detection. 



The less pure lard, and the fat extracted from diseased 

 animals and from the offal, is used in the manufacture of 

 soap. Besides soft and fancy soaps, there are made at 

 Cincinnati about 100,000 pounds of soap weekly, and of 

 the fat employed about 80 per cent is pork grease. 

 Lastly, the bristles give rise to a separate business, 

 employing a hundred hands, and the hoofs are partly 

 boiled down into glue. 



The marketable products of the 420,000 hogs packed 

 at Cincinnati may be thus summed up — 



Pork (150,000 barrels,) 29,400,000 poinids. 



Bacon, 



Lard (No. 1,) 



Lard oil, 



Stearine candies, 



Bar soap. 



Fancy and soft soaps, 7,300,000 



Prussiate of potash, . 50,000 



21,000,000 ... 



13,800,000 ... 

 1,000,000 gallons, 

 1,875,000 pounds. 

 5,200,000 ... 



This is the yearly produce of a stock of about a million 

 and a half of hogs in the State of Ohio. In the whole 

 United States, the entire hog stock is estimated at 

 upwards of 40,000,000. Hog-rearing must therefore be 

 regarded as one of the most important branches of rural 

 economy, and the hog-crop one to which yearly attention 

 should be given. 



This branch of economy in Cincinnati shows us how 

 cities grow, how centres of united and simultaneous 

 action become necessary to the most profitable develop- 



