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Fresh Pork, Ham, Etc.

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
April
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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Not since 1861 has the prico of pork beun so low as it now is. Thero ia nou an unliinited supply in tho market anc the daily reoeipts uro largo from th West. Tho article lius boen a drug foi 8orao time, but this week the ïuarkot i.j qoioker at ourrent prices. An average f 700 dressed hogs arrive in this marcot froiu Chicago every day, and 1,000 ive ones. The demand forshipping puria brisk, and "long middlings" and ' sides " are going to Europo in large lots, loxed in dry galt, Onu concern in the narket sold enough for export in one Uiy lost week to mako 3,000 barrels, to bay nothing of othors engaged in the busness. Huma aro plenty and solling very ow from $10 to $1 1 por owt. There have wen moro hogs killed this season than 'at many years, and the quality of tho ork is bettar, in every particular. Dress ;d hogs are selling roí f6 per owt., and resh Uilled for $6.50 to (i.T.') per cwt. lauéages and lard are oorretpondingly business in all hog proucts is liuiug prosecutod under the stimlus to tho oonsumer of low. prices. - Cutnitráal Bulletin.

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Old News
Michigan Argus