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HOGS AND THEIR TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES 

 AND EUROPE. 



The immense production of hogs in the United States, and the 

 heavy trade in them at Cincinnati, demand something more than 

 a mere superficial view of the transactions, at one point, in order 

 to understand the magnitude and relations of the trade. We can 

 furnish the commercial reader with some statistical facts, which 

 will serve as landmarks in taking a broad view of the subject. 



In the year 1839 there w^ere in the United States, in all, 

 26,301,293 hogs. Of this nmnber, more than one-half of the 

 whole were in eight states, viz. : 



Tennessee, 2,926,607 



Kentucky, 2,810,533 



Ohio, 2,099,746 



Indiana, ], 613,608 



Illinois, 1,494,254 



Missouri, 1,271,161 



Mississippi, 1,001,201 



Alabama, 1,423,873 



Total, 14,150,983 



The states of Virginia, New York, and North Carolina, each 

 have more hogs than Illinois and Missouri ; but we have taken 

 the states of the west and south-west together to show the result. 



Now, we want to draw two or three inferences from the num- 

 ber of hogs in the several states, before we compare the produc- 

 tion with that of Europe. 



1. In the first place, hogs are fatted and nearly supported on 

 maize and Indian corn. They exist, therefore, in the several 

 states just in proportion to the production of Indian corn. Now, 

 Tennessee has the most, and the three states of Tennessee, Ohio, 

 and Kentucky, far more than any other three states, of both In- 

 dian corn and hogs. The twenty-six millions of hogs in the 

 United States can scarcely consume less than two hundred 

 millions of bushels of corn! They are therefore, the greatest 

 market for that article. 



2. If we suppose these hogs to average 180 lbs. each, and to 

 be worth, as they are, $3.50 per cwt., then this animal alone is, 

 in the United States, worth one hundred and sixty-six millions of 

 dollars, or three times the entire cotton crop for the year 1845. 

 The value of swine in the state of Ohio alone, exceeds twelve 

 millions of dollars. 



