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the wholesale annual slaughter in the States, where pigs 

 are salted by millions. 



OfBeial data gave the following as the number of pigs 

 slaughtered in the different States in 1871, but the trade 

 has largely increased since then : — 



Cincinnati and Ohio 

 Chicago and Illinois 

 St. Louis and Missouri . . . 

 Milwaukie and Wisconsin 

 Louisville and Kentucky 

 Indianapolis and Indiana 

 Kansas City and Missouri 



626,305 

 1,425,079 

 5.38,000 

 303,500 

 302,240 

 196,317 

 180,922 



Total 3,572,699 



At the Vienna Exhibition in 1873 many models of 

 special American slaughter-houses were shown, where 

 pigs are prepared for export in astonishing numbers. 



The comparative number of hogs packed in 



1860 were 

 1871 „ 

 1880 „ 



2,350,882 

 3,572,699 

 6,950,451 



Fifteen or sixteen years ago the swine in America 

 were nearly all of the white breed, now they are all 

 black. The Berkshire breed has been found to have 

 hardier skins, and are therefore less affected than the 

 white variety by exposure to sun and wind, mud and 

 , frost, incident to their crude management in that 

 country. 



Pork occupies the third place in nutritive value of the 

 animal food substances, ranking after beef and mutton. 



All the world now-a-days knows that the nitrogenous 

 animal substances or meats are the most easy of diges- 

 tion and the most nourishing, because they approximate 

 most closely to our nature, but occasionally there is a 

 necessity for special hydrogenous products, such as fat, 

 starch, etc., to assist respiration, and the development of 

 animal heat. For this object pork may be considered the 

 best of foods, because it contains both of these matters 

 — flesh and fat, while beef and veal contain more flesh 



