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Exports of hogs; bacon, hams, and shoulders; pork; and lard from the United States 



Live hogs Bacon, hams, Pork Lard 



Fiscal Thousand and shoulders Thousand Million 



year head Million pounds barrels pounds 



1790 5 ( M 24 ( 1 ) 



1800 14 1 55 2 



1820 4 1 44 3 



1840 5 2 66 7 



1860 48 26 205 40 



Million pounck 



1880 83 760 96 375 



1900 51 709 168 662 



1910 4 299 45 363 



1915 8 550 54 476 



Calendar year 



1919 25 1,787 67 761 



1920 55 822 79 612 



1 254,000 pounds bacon, hams, and shoulders; 356,000 pounds lard. 



Following are the quantities and values of pork and pork products 

 exported from the United States during the calendar year 1922: ^ 



Pork exports of the United States for the calendar year 1922 



Pork products Pounds Value 



Bacon 341,838,745 $51,989,095 



Hams and shoulders 289,613,175 57,070,244 



Pork, canned 2,563,298 824,832 



Pork, fresh 26,974,147 4,308,006 



Pork, pickled 38,628,919 4,648,175 



Lard 766,950,103 91,484,669 



Lard compounds 16,286,169 1,952,187 



9,704,432 2,806,048 



casings 24,355,037 5,646,842 



Totals 1,516,914,025 220,730,098 



The destination of our principal pork exports and the total pur- 

 chases of these by the various countries are shown below: ^ 



Destination of principal pork products exported from the United States in 1920 



lU. S. Dept. Comm. Rpt., Dec, 1922, Pt. I, pp, 4-8. 



* Compiled from U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook, 1921, pp. 758, 759. 



