A MANUAL ON THE HOG. 3 



diminution in the consumption of bacon and pork. If, 

 therefore, the pork from 2,036,116 hogs were required to 

 feed the people of Georgia in 1860, no less quantity would 

 suffice in 1870. 



The correspondents of this Department reported the 

 average net weight of hogs killed in Georgia, in 1875, to 

 have been 169, pounds. The decrease of 1,047,551 hogs 

 involved, therefore, a deficit of 177,436,119 pounds of 

 pork, which had to be supplied by purchase from without 

 the State, or by the substitution of other food. Assuming 

 the average price paid by the people of Georgia, in 1870, 

 on a cash basis, to have been ten cents per pound, it 

 required the outlay of $17,743,611, the larger part of 

 which was entirely withdrawn from circulation in this 

 State. 



Assuming 169 pounds as the average net weight of 

 porkers in Georgia, in 1860 (it was, really, not less than 

 200 pounds), and we have the enormous amount of 344,- 

 103,614 pounds of pork, raised in the State at that time. 

 In addition to this, there was a considerable quantity ot 

 bacon, and a large number of live hogs, annually im- 

 ported. It is fair to assume that there are 400,000,000 

 pounds of pork and bacon consumed annually in Georgia, 

 every pound of which could, and should, be raised in the 

 State ; but, as above shown, and that at a low calculation, 

 $17,743,611 were required in 1870 to supply the demand 

 in excess of the home production. There having been a con- 

 siderable increase in the number raised in the State since 

 1870, less is required now. 



With these facts before the reader, his attention is 

 confidently claimed, and it is believed that he will be suf- 

 ficiently impressed with the importance of the subject 

 under discussion, to induce a careful perusal of what follows 

 about our important, but sadly neglected friend, the hog. 



If any farmer who is not already convinced of the impor- 

 tance of raising a home supply of pork will examine his 



