204- PRICE BACON LONDON FEEDERS. 



but with stores for feeding, from Ireland. Demand, 

 however, has had its necessary effect on a species of 

 animal so speedily reproduced, and pigs are found in 

 great abundance throughout England. The price 

 nevertheless 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, how- 

 ever, of pigs, declined during the year 1829, with 

 that of other live stock, the markets at length having 

 been abundantly supplied : yet Mr. Chappell (spring 

 1830) sold his prime joints 'at IQd. to 10|o!. 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 



