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There is certainly an increasing demand for small 

 hams, from pigs less than a year old, and it is obviously 

 cheaper to produce two fifteen-pound hams than one 

 thirty-pound ham. There is also an increasing demand 

 for good bacon. 



In many places there is a call for choice lard, at 

 rates above market prices. Why not supply such lard ? 

 Clover-fed hogs will yield the product, and if put up in 



ESSEX SOW, TWO YEARS OLD. ONE OF THE SMALLER BREEDS. 



pails holding from five to twenty-five pounds, extra 

 prime lard will sell above current rates. 



Many pork products, viewed from the standpoint 

 of a city consumer, are on the border line between 

 wholesome and unwholesome foods. Poorly prepared 

 or over-fat bacon, sausage, scrapple, head-cheese, etc., 

 are voted down, while the same products from leaner 

 animals, if skilfully prepared for market, find ready 

 buyers. The less people dwell in the open air the less 

 fat they can digest, and it must not be forgotten that 



