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animal so speedily reproduced^ and pigs are found 

 in great abundance, throughout England. The 

 price nevertheless has gradually advanced, and in 

 September, 1826, Chappell, the crack Porkman of 

 Skinner-street, London, sold the prime joints of his 

 best milk-fed pork, at one shilling per Ib. ; the price, 

 however, of pigs has declined during the present 

 year, 1829, with that of other live stock, the markets, 

 at length, having been abundantly supplied : yet 

 Mr. Chappell is now (spring, 1830) selling his prime 

 joints at lOd. to lOJd. per Ib. with a brisk sale. 



The Irish BACON has been greatly improved, and 

 is not so easily distinguishable, as formerly, from 

 English ; nor is there such a difference in price, 

 both Irish butter and bacon often exceeding the 

 English, in that respect. Scarcely any bacon is 

 now made in or near London, the Distillers, who 

 formerly fed such great numbers of hogs, having 

 long since exchanged that species of stock for bul- 

 locks ; and subsequently, many of the houses have 

 given up all live stock, disposing of their wash and 

 grains to the cow-keepers. The starch-houses of 

 the metropolis keep about four or five hundred hogs 

 each, of which they make somewhat more than two 

 annual returns, fat ; or perhaps more, since a smaller 

 and quicker feeding breed of pigs has come into use. 

 These houses, in the year 1829, will have turned out 

 nearly three thousand fat hogs. More than double 

 that number were fattened in and near the metropolis, 

 by six houses, upwards of half a century since, and 

 before the revolutionary war with America. Of 

 these, the great house at Lambeth, Stonard and 

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