The world's opportunities and how to use them . s to come. Andthere is no reason to apprehend that these regions will soon beexhausted. If wool-growing shall be gradually superseded byother industries in California and Ohio, as it has been in NewYork and Vermont, there will still be left for it vast regions inTexas, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico, and Dakota. Swine.—Swine are useful solely for their flesh and their IX. shows their numbers in each, of the States in 1880and 1870. In 1880 there were in the United States 47,681,700swine — probably more than there are in all Europe. In 1870
The world's opportunities and how to use them . s to come. Andthere is no reason to apprehend that these regions will soon beexhausted. If wool-growing shall be gradually superseded byother industries in California and Ohio, as it has been in NewYork and Vermont, there will still be left for it vast regions inTexas, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico, and Dakota. Swine.—Swine are useful solely for their flesh and their IX. shows their numbers in each, of the States in 1880and 1870. In 1880 there were in the United States 47,681,700swine — probably more than there are in all Europe. In 1870there were 25,134,569 — an increase in 1880 of 90 per cent.;their value, at $ per head, being $202,657,620. Swine are found in considerable numbers in every State ofthe Union, there being seventeen States in each of which aremore than a million. They are numerous, compared with thepopulation, in the group of Central, Western, and North-westernStates, in which Indian-corn is the great agricultural product. CELEBRATED AMERICAN FOXHALL WINNING THE GRAND Note 4. LIVE-STOCK, AND ITS OPPORTUNITIES. 123 Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky containfully 50 per cent, of all the swine in the United States. Theyare numerous also in several of the Southern States; Alabama,Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas hav-ing nearly 20 per cent, of the whole. The slaughter of swine, more than of any other live-stock,is carried on in extensive slaughter-houses. In these, in 1880,there were 17,847,409 swine killed or bought dressed, theiraverage gross weight being 248 pounds, and their value, whenslaughtered and packed, $176,447,996, or $ each. Of theproducts of swine, 506,077,052 pounds of pork were sold fresh;859,045,987 pounds were salted. There were 1,122,742,816pounds of bacon and ham, and 501,471,698 pounds of takes the lead in this business, slaughtering about6,000,000 swine, or more than one-third of the whole
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