LARD AND 1 LARD ADULTERATIONS. 



Comparison of properties of lard and confound lards. 

 The mean results of the analytical data are as follows : 



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STATISTICS OF THE LARD INDUSTRY. 



It was developed in the investigations before the Committees on Ag- 

 riculture of the Senate and House of Eepreseutatives that the annual 

 production of lard ia the United States is 000,000,000 pounds, of which 

 abouthalf is pure lard and the other half pure lard mixed with steariue 

 and cotton oil, the u refined " or compound lard of commerce. The an- 

 nual exports of lard are about 320,000,000 pounds, of which about 40 

 per cent, were compound or refined lard.* 



According to the figures furnished by the Bureau of Statistics, the 

 production of lard from 1877 to 1887, inclusive, was as follows : 



* Statement of Mr. G. II. Webster before House Committee on Agriculture, 

 of Hearings, p. 26. 



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