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sent east, they having shipped the past season over 300 tons of ground 

 bones alone." 



Present leading hog-packing centers.— The rank of the leading 

 hog-packing centers is shown in the following table compiled from the 

 reports of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics: 



Number of hogs packed at leading points for three years 



Market 1922 1921 1920 



1. Chicago 6,322,682 5,977,213 5,869,592 



2. Omaha 2,226,391 1,970,545 1,998,376 



3. Kansas City 2,052,229 1,712,843 1,838 080 



4. St. Paul 2,038,522 1,667,763 1,904 869 



5. St. Joseph 1,706,288 1,516,877 1,584 112 



6. Indianapolis 1,527,566 1,376,543 1359 477 



7. St. Louis 1,228,784 1,288,730 1,678,'226 



8. Sioux City 1,193,624 1,047,431 1,295,790 



9. Baltimore 1,019,499 1,013,051 873,663 



10. New York 1,091,099 902,370 755 243 



11. Cincinnati 669,283 897,763 788 696 



12. Cleveland 749,648 688,246 609 602 



13. Buffalo 662,822 669,760 630,864 



14. Jersey City 458,430 509,185 629 382 



15. Pittsburgh 506,866 504,792 412,911 



Totals 23,458,733 21,743,112 22,228,883 



A total of 28,736,660 hogs were slaughtered at 68 points in 1922. 

 The 15 points listed above slaughtered 82 per cent of this total, 



Chicago packing at present time.— The number of hogs packed at 

 Chicago by the leading hog-packing firms in 1920, 1921, and 1922, and 

 the total number packed at Chicago in each of these years were as 

 follows:^ 



Hogs packed by Chicago companies for three years 



Company 1922 1921 1920 



Armour & Co 644,000 810,300 810,200 



Swift & Co 732,800 736,100 811,300 



Western Packing Co 684,300 697,400 520,500 



Morris & Co 711,500 583,200 516,100 



Wilson & Co 627,500 565,300 570,300 



Hammond Co 365,800 392,500 409,500 



Anglo-American Co 361,000 348,000 391,100 



Boyd, Lunham & Co 326,800 353,300 362,400 



Independent Packing Co 346,600 281,300 252,000 



Roberts &Oake 302,900 267,200 241,400 



Brennan Packing Co 306,000 194,700 201,500 



Miller & Hart 249,800 233,100 173,300 



Wm. Davies Co 158,000 143,200 223,100 



'All others 903,295 710,096 695,058 



Totals 6,710,295 6,316,296 6,177,758 



> Includes hogs packed outside the Union Stock Yards. 



Growth of American pork packing. — The pork-packing year ends 

 March 1, and is divided into two seasons — the summer season of eight 

 months, from March 1 to November 1, and the winter season of four 

 months, from November 1 to March 1. This system came into use 



'Drovers Journal Year Book of Figures for 1922, p. 6. 



