Imports of Bacon and Hams. 



21 factories in the year 1897 amounted to nearly £1,192,000, 

 and the total number of hogs slaughtered in them in the 

 same year was 487,302. At the instigation of the joint com- 

 mittee of these establishments, experiments are being carried 

 out in the State Laboratory at Copenhagen to test the rela»- 

 tive values of different processes of curing bacon. 



Although the exports of Canadian bacon and hams are 

 increasing yearly, the trade of the Dominion in these 

 products has not yet assumed the dimensions to which it has 

 attained in Denmark. The quantities shipped from all ports in 

 Canada in the year ended June, 1898, were 686,000 cwts. of 

 bacon and 75,000 cwts. of hams, all but a few thousand pounds 

 being consigned to the mother country. 



The latest complete returns relating to the number of 

 swine in the Dominion are for the year 189 1, when there were 

 estimated to be 1,733,850 pigs, distributed as follows : — 



Ontario - - 1,121.396 



Quebec 369,608 



Nova Scotia 48,048 



New Brunswick ------ 50,94c; 



Manitoba - 54,177 



British Columbia - 30,764 



Prince Edward Island 42,629 



The Territories - 16,283 



Later returns for Ontario show that the number of swine in 

 that province in 1898 was 1,643,000, while in Manitoba, in the 

 same year, 69,650 pigs were enumerated. 



