A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . tucky, 2,310,533 39,847,120 Indiana, 1,623,608 28,155,887 « Total, 6,033,887 101,671,131 bush. In 1840, then, the farmers of these threestates had six millions of hogs, and morethan a hundred millioiis of bushels ofcorn. They could have fatted two mill-ions of those hogs, and sent them to mar-ket, on forty millions of bushels of corn. 1847. HogH, Corn. Ohio, 2,500,000 50,000,000 bush. Kentucky, 2,500,000 45,000,000 Indiana, 2,000,000 40,000,000 Total, 7,000,000 135,000,000 are in the United States30,000,000 of hogs. This is
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . tucky, 2,310,533 39,847,120 Indiana, 1,623,608 28,155,887 « Total, 6,033,887 101,671,131 bush. In 1840, then, the farmers of these threestates had six millions of hogs, and morethan a hundred millioiis of bushels ofcorn. They could have fatted two mill-ions of those hogs, and sent them to mar-ket, on forty millions of bushels of corn. 1847. HogH, Corn. Ohio, 2,500,000 50,000,000 bush. Kentucky, 2,500,000 45,000,000 Indiana, 2,000,000 40,000,000 Total, 7,000,000 135,000,000 are in the United States30,000,000 of hogs. This is about fif-teen times the number usually slaugh-tered in the whole country for marketin one year. Hogs grow upon full sizein less than two years. It follows, then, I from these facts, that there must be atleast five times as many hogs in thecountiy that might be fatted for market,as really are. The west being peculiarly adapted tothe cultivatif)n of Indian corn (the bestfood for fattening hogs), renders the rais- I ing of hogs a very profitable > I This state consists of two greatpeninsulas, and presents a formand position unlike any other statein the Union. It might be com-pared with Maryland and Virginia,in respect to the separation of itsparts by water; but it is differentfrom them in lying far in the in-terior, and in having for its prin-cipal boundaries the borders ofthree great lakes. It has LakeSuperior on the north, with its out-let and the Sault de Sainte Marieon the northeast; Lake Huron onthe east, with the west end ofLake Erie on the southeast, with Lake Clair and the outlet of Huron, Ohioand Indiana on the south ; Lake Michigan and Wisconsin on the west. The advantages offered to commerce and trade by the natural features of thecountry, and to internal improvements, are equalled only by the agricultural facil-itifs and mineral wealth of some parts of the territory. There are several goodharbors alons: the borders of the lakes and their coves, which al
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