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Netherlands, 1,540,000 



Prussia 1,645,160 



Sweden, 1,320,000 



Spain, • 1,110,000 



Portugal, 770,000 



All other States, 2,348,000 



Total, 46,278,160 



To one who is acquainted with the abundance of swine, and 

 the facility for raising them in the United States, this table must 

 seem extraordinary. It shows that Russia, Austria, and Great 

 Britain, having a population of 120 millions of people, have only 

 as many swine as the United States with 20 millions! 



Eight western States, with a population of 6 millions, have as 

 many swine as Great Britain, France, Prussia, and Bavaria, with 

 75 millions! The European States have not enough Indian corn 

 to feed them upon. 



The proportion of swine between the United States and some 

 of the European States, is thus : 



United States to Prussia, 6 to 1 



" " to Austria, 9 to 1 



« " to Great Britain, 7 to 1 



« " to France, 10 to 1 



" " to Spain, 16 to 1 



Russia being a thinly populated country, and having the most 

 mast has the most swine; but for the converse reason, the southern 

 states of Europe have the least. The United States have six 

 times as many in proportion as Russia. 



The same disproportion extends, but in less proportion, to other 

 animals. If the people of Europe were a meat-eating people, 

 they could not find a supply in their country. These animals 

 would be killed off in half a dozen years. But they are not a 

 meat-eating people. They live upon every species of vegetable, 

 much as the animals do. 



In Ireland they depend upon potatoes. In Scotland, in no 

 small degree, upon oatmeal. Strange as it may seem, thousands 

 of people in Spain and France live in a great degree on chesnuts, 

 a food which is scarcely fit for pigs to eat. In some countries 

 they eat rye, and in Russia they mix all the bran of grain, mak- 

 ing a very coarse rough bread. 



The pork of the western country is chiefly in demand at the 

 Atlantic seaports, for our commercial marine, is now rapidly ap- 

 proaching the largest in the world. The adventurous whaleman, 

 the hardy fisher for cod and mackerel, the thousand coasters, who 

 sail in every bay and inlet, from Penobscot to the Rio Grande, 



