MARKET POINTS. IOJ 



decade. The farmer must suit the market, and fortu- 

 nately the market calls for younger pork. 



The Government tells us that "each year limited 

 quantities of English bacon are shipped uninspected to 

 New York and Boston grocers, who retail it at high 

 figures to fastidious customers. It is considered a 

 luxury at some American breakfast tables, " etc. The 

 same authority, our Secretary of Agriculture, says that 

 American packers can only obtain and hold English 

 and other European bacon markets by specially pre- 

 paring their meats to suit the taste and demands of 

 those markets. Smaller and leaner swine for bacon 

 purposes are called for in nearly all foreign markets. 

 And the meat must be mildly cured. But in Mexico 

 and some of the South and Central American states 

 the heaviest, fattest and thickest sides are required. 



In the Yearbook for the following year, the new- 

 est one at this writing, the Secretary of Agriculture 

 says : "Our bacon sells for less money in the English 

 market than that of any other country. The reason 

 for this is found in its over-fatness and saltness. * * * 

 American hams are held in higher estimation than 

 bacon and hold their own in competition with all 

 other countries, so that in quantities shipped and 

 in prices hams and pickled pork from the United 

 States are equal to the same products from other 

 countries. ' ' 



Great Britain takes five-eighths of our hog prod- 

 uct-exports, and pays the United States over $50, 000,000 

 per year for bacon, hams, fresh and pickled pork, 

 and lard. Her trade is worth having, and the Ameri- 

 can pork packer may well try to please English 



