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are still more favorable in the New England and other 

 Atlantic States, because food is cheaper than it is in Eng- 

 land, and the large cities are not as well supplied with 

 choice fresh pork as are those of England, and conse- 

 quently it brings, or would bring, if it could be obtained, 

 a relatively higher price, as compared with beef, mutton, 

 and barreled pork. 



In 1862, Mr. Baldwin, of Breton House, near Birming- 

 ham, delivered a lecture before the Worcestershire Agri- 

 cultural Society on the breeding and feeding of pigs, in 

 which he said : 



" In 1845, he entered upon a farm at Kingsnorton. In 

 1846, he purchased two gilts and a boar, of the Tarn worth 

 breed, and although he began breeding with only three 

 pigs in 1846, in 1851 he sold 1,000, say $5,000, worth 

 of store and fat pigs within one year ; and in the years 

 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1855, he sold about 1,000 worth 

 each year. The idea of feeding such numbers of pigs 

 was first conceived by him at a county meeting at Wor- 

 cester, in 1849, after free trade had come into full opera- 

 tion. One of the speakers produced many samples of 

 foreign produce at amazingly low prices. Among them 

 was a good sample of Egyptian beans, at 9s. and 9s. 6d. 

 per bag ; Indian corn at the same price, and Dantzic 

 wheat, also, very low. c Gentlemen,' exclaimed the speak- 

 er, ' can you grow them at these prices ?' He (Mr. 

 Baldwin) looked on the bright side of the question, and 

 began to ask himself how he might turn the low price of 

 grain to good account. It struck him that, us he had a 

 great many store pigs, he would feed them instead of 

 selling them as stores. He accordingly bought a large 

 quantity of Indian corn, at from 9s. to 9s. Qd. per bag, 

 [200 Ibs.], to begin with; and within two years and a 

 quarter from that time, he bred, fed, and sold 2,000 worth 

 of pigs, and cleared, after paying all expenses, 500, be- 



