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Forty Years' Experience of a Peactical Hog Man. 



tion the control and ultimate eradication of the disease, 

 is the most urgent and financially vital problem which con- 

 fronts swine breeders and farmers throughout the entire 

 country today. 



The table given below, based upon data taken from the 

 Crop Reporter, issued by the Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington in February and April, 1913, will prove of 

 interest in showing the distribution of swine throughout 

 the United States, and giving the estimated number and 

 value of hogs in the various sections, and the losses that 

 have been sustained through disease. The ten leading hog- 

 producing states are given in a separate grouping. 



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Nortli Atlantic 2,498,000 



SoutlL Atlantic 6,451,000 



North Cent. East of 



Mississippi River ..14,766,000 

 North Cent. West of 



Mississippi River ..22,465,000 



South Central 12,830,000 



Far West 2,168,000 



31,572,000.00 

 48,356,000.00 



48,671 

 694,751 



615,201.44 

 5,210,632.50 



156,093,000.00 1,562,124 16,511,670.68 



249,451,000.00 

 95,681,000.00 

 21,956,000.00 



2,987,333 



1,311,473 



91,931 



33,159,396.30 



9,783,588.68 



931,261.03 



Total 61,178,000 $603,109,000.00 6,738,283 $66,439,470.38 



By ten leading States: 



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Iowa 8,720,000 $104,640,000.00 



Illinois 4,315,000 45,308,000.00 



Missouri 4,087,000 34,740,000.00 



Nebraska 3,798,000 43,297,000.00 



Indiana 3,709,000 36,348,000.00 



Ohio 3,399,000 36,709,000.00 



Kansas 2,611,000 27,154,000.00 



Texas 2,493,000 20,941,000.00 



Wisconsin 2,030,000 23,548,000.00 



Georgia 1,888,000 13,405,000.00 



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1,395,200 

 604,100 

 715,225 

 417,780 

 556,350 

 292,314 

 313,320 

 112,185 

 56,840 

 311,520 



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 6,079 

 4,752 

 5,452 

 3,156 

 3,258 

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 659 

 2,211 



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 692.00 

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 354.00 

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