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The Hog And Corn Crops

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
February
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Jacksoxville, III., Feb. 1.- The $a. tional Crop Reporter contains to-day éstimates in relation to the per cent. of the last erop of corn reruaining in hand prior to June 15, and estimates of the number of stook hogs in the hands of feeders at the same dato, in comparison with the quantity and number on hond the correrponding dato of 18)53. In relation to oom the States of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Oliio and Missouri, which was in 1878 upward of 382,000,000 bushels, the average amount on hand at the date named is estimated at a fraetiou less than fifty per cent. on an approximate quantity of 190,000,000 bushels. The average eonsumptioñ is very uniform in all the States, being thé highost in Wisconsin, sixty per cent. The unusually mild weathor in all locations has tended largely to keeping down the corn consumption, and tho condition of the stock generally is better than was anhcipated a month earlier. The estimates upon stock hogs are for the samo States named above, and indícate an average falling falling off of twentyone per cent. from the number on hand a year ago. The condition of some is considerably below the average, the hio-h prices paid by packers and the scarcityót' corn having caused an outflow of the marketable hogs and a stinting of the supply of food to those remaming. The outlook is very slim for hogs for sunimer packing. A comparison of the average prices in the States named December, 1873, and January 15, 187-1, shows a cle' cided advance, although indications are that the maximum has been about repched.

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Old News
Michigan Argus