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Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, are the largest hog-producing 

 States in the south. Adding Kentucky and Missouri to the southern States, it will be seen that then; 

 are 20,238,887 head of swine, while in all the other States and Territories there are only 13,273,080. 



The following table shows the number of swine in the Pacifie States in I860, as compared with 1850 : 



1800. ia r &amp;gt;o. 



California 456, 396 2, 770 



Oregon 81, 615 30, 235 



New Mexico 10, 313 7, 314 



Washington 6, 383 



Utah . . 6, 707 914 



Total 501, 414 41, 239 



There were 561,414 swine in the Pacific States in I860, against 41,23.0 in 1850, showing an 

 increase of over twelve hundred per cent. 



California has increased from less than three thousand in 1850, to nearly a half million in I860. 



The following table shows the number of swine in the different sections, and in the United States 

 and Territories, to each hundred inhabitants, in 1850 and in 1860 : 



I860. 1850. 



New England States 10 13 



Middle States 31 41 



Western States 149 181 



Southern States 175 215 



Pacific States 101 23 



States and Territories 106 131 



In the New England States there were thirteen head of swine to each hundred inhabitants in 

 1850, and only ten in 1860. 



In the middle States there were.in 1850, forty-one to each hundredinhabitants,and thirty-one in 1860. 



lu the western States there were one hundred and eighty-one to eacli hundred inhabitants in 1850, 

 and one hundred and forty-nine in 1860. 



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111 the southern States there were two hundred and fifteen to each hundred inhabitants in 1850, 

 and one hundred and seventy-five in 1860. 



In the Pacific States there were, in 1850, twenty-three to each hundred inhabitants, and one 

 hundred and one in 1860. 



In all the sections, except the Pacific States, the increase in the number of swine has not kept 

 pace with the increase in population. 



It will be observed that there are more swine in the southern States, in proportion to population, 

 than in any other section. There are in the south eight and three-quarters pigs to each family of five 

 persons. 



The western States have the next largest proportion of swine. There are nearly seven and one- 

 half to each family of five persons. 



The Pacific States have the next largest proportion, or a little over five to each family. 



In the middle States there are only about three to ten persons, and in the New England States 

 only one to ten persons. 



In the western States there are nearly five times as many swine, in proportion to population, as in 

 the middle States, and fifteen times as many as in the New England States. 



In the United States there were one hundred and thirty-one swine to each hundred inhabitants 

 in 1850, and one hundred and six in 1860. 



This falling off in the number of swine, in proportion to population, may be accounted for by the 

 increased tacilities for the transportation of grain, and its consequent relative advance in price. Pigs 

 cixu be multiplied so rapidly that, as soon as it is more profitable to feed grain to swine than to sell it, 



