y42 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



into Virginia by the English adventurers, and eighteen years thereafter it 

 is recorded that their numbers had so increased that the settlement at 

 Jamest-own had to be surrounded with palisades to keep them away. 



VII. Location of Principal Markets. 



The ten leading hog producing states are a.s follows : 



Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, 

 Georgia, Oklahoma — in the order named. 



Markets naturally are located in places that are best suited for the pur- 

 pose — places where the largest number of hogs can be bought at the lowest 

 prices, and where the means of distributing the output of the i)acking- 

 houses are the best. The two factors are not of equal weight. The dressed 

 carcass can be transported with less expense than can the live animal ; 

 therefore the principal markets are located in proximity to the country 

 where most hogs are produced. This is in the corn belt. The following 

 are the principal hog-raising states, with the round number of hogs pro- 

 duced annually: Iowa, 7,000,000; Illinois, 4,000,000; Missouri, 3,000,- 

 000; Indiana, 3,000,000; Nebraska, 3,000,000; Ohio, 3,000,000; Texas, 

 2,000,000; Wisconsin, 2,000,000, and Kansas, 2,000,000. 



The principal hog markets in the United States, with the approximate 

 number of hogs slaughtered annually, are as follows: Chicago, 7,000,000; 

 Kansas City, 4,000,000; Omaha. 2,000,000; St. Joseph, 2,000,000; St. 

 Louis, 2,000,000; Indianapolis, 1.000,000; Buffalo, 1,000,000; Sioux City, 

 1,000,000, and Cleveland, 500,000. New York takes about 500,000, and 

 Boston 1,500,000, annually, but these can hardly be considered markets 

 from the farmers' standpoint, as this supply is principally bought in other 

 markets and shipped to these places. This takes some of the hogs shipped 

 from the Western markets of the United States. In the above figures, only 

 the hogs that are slaughtered are taken into consideration, not those that 

 are shipped out alive. Chicago annually ships out one million live hogs, 

 making the total handled at that place annually about eight million. 



