. Types and market classes of live stock. arket Classes of Live Stock Modern large hog markets.—The Chicago Daily Farmersand Drovers Journal reports the receipts of hogs at thethirteen principal markets of the country during 1914 asfollows: Markets Receipts 1. Chicago 6,618,166 2. St. Louis ^ ^ 2,558,325 3. Kansas City 2,264,805 4. 2,258,620 5. Indianapolis. 2,099,787 6. Pittsburg 1,808,731 7. St. Joseph 1,723,966 8. St. Paul 1,589,821 9. Buffalo 1,568,270 10. Sioux City 1,256,679 Markets Receipts 11. Fort Worth 515,003 12. Oklahoma City 428,260 13. Wichi:a 418,213 Total . 25,112,146 1
. Types and market classes of live stock. arket Classes of Live Stock Modern large hog markets.—The Chicago Daily Farmersand Drovers Journal reports the receipts of hogs at thethirteen principal markets of the country during 1914 asfollows: Markets Receipts 1. Chicago 6,618,166 2. St. Louis ^ ^ 2,558,325 3. Kansas City 2,264,805 4. 2,258,620 5. Indianapolis. 2,099,787 6. Pittsburg 1,808,731 7. St. Joseph 1,723,966 8. St. Paul 1,589,821 9. Buffalo 1,568,270 10. Sioux City 1,256,679 Markets Receipts 11. Fort Worth 515,003 12. Oklahoma City 428,260 13. Wichi:a 418,213 Total . 25,112,146 1913 total 26,837,217 1912 total 26,239,753 1911 total 27,551,366 1910 total .. 20,014,283 As shown by the above figures, Chicago receives morethan twice as many hogs as any other market in the the 6,618,166 hogs received at the Chicago yards during1914, 5,327,454 were slaughtered by Chicago packers and theremaining 1,290,712 were shipped out alive to other points forslaughter. Practically no hogs are taken out of the large. Fig. 71. Unloading Hogs at Chicago. markets for feeding purposes on account of the danger ofdisease. In addition to the hogs included in the above figures,small packing firms at Chicago, located outside the yards, re-ceived and slaughtered 317,959 hogs during 1914. Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 279 The growth of the Chicago market is shown by the fol-lowing list of receipts and shipments of hogs at that pointduring the years mentioned: Year Receipts 540,486 392,864 961,746 1,693,158 3,912,110 Shipments 192,013 227,164482,875 j924,453 1,582,643 Year Receipts Shipments 1858 1860 1870 1875 1880 1890 1914 7,059,5557,663,8298,109,0645,586,8586,618,166 1,394,9901,985,7001,452,1831,202,3901,290,712 It is interesting to note that the advent of the refrigera-tor car, about 1875, had a marked effect on the pro-portionate number of hogs shipped. The largest num-ber of hogs received at Chicago in a year was in 1898, when8,817
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