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midity of a wet atmosphere; the dangers or the rivers and sea are
too great to be encountered. But added to these objections is the
fact that the places of consumption of our pork are principally the
countries that lie between our country and the Atlantic, and are as
inaccessible or as difficult of access from Charleston and Savannah,
as they are to Lexington: or in other words, if a vessel shall pass
the whole course of the Mississippi, and the reefs of Florida with a
load of pork or bacon, and reach Charleston or any other seaport of
the south, with her cargo, sound, the pork will then, to find a
market, have to be sent in wagons or carts some hundred of
miles into the interior, and towards Kentucky, for consumption.
And thus it is, that no sensible man can think of sending the hogs of
Kentucky to Carolina or Georgia, in the shape of either pork or ba-
con, by way of the Mississippi;-canals arc not thought of, and every
man must know that wagons or horse power will not do to take either
pork or bacon, from fiur to five hundred miles to market. Hence I
conclude that if ever our stocks reach the southern markets, either
salted or dried, they can only do so by rail roads. And to satisfy
the candid reader that in this way they ought to be sent to market,
1 will submit a few facts, known and understood by every trader of
live stocks in the southern markets.
  First: I will suppose the drover starts a hog, weighing two hun-
dred and fifty pounds when he reaches Augusta or Columbia,-this
hog, if well taken care of and in good health, will weigh precisely
two hundred and twenty-five pounds and no more-the average and
fair price of this hog at either of these markets is six dollars per
hundred. The hog is therefore, at either of these points, worth four-
teen dollars and fifty cents. But this hog has lost in value (that is
weight) one dollar and fifty cents-he has cost his drover, for expen-
ses, four dollars, making in all five dollars and fifty cents; so that the
drover gets for his hog, weighing two hundred and fifty pounds at
home, when he arrives at Columbia and makes sale of him, nine dol-
lars, and no more. We will now suppose that in place of pork, the
hog is slaughtered and turned into bacon-a hog weighing two hun-
dred and fifty pounds neat, will make two hundred pounds of bacon-
the salt and labor to turn the hog into bacon are worth one dollar--
the cooperage and the proportion of the two hundred pounds of bacon
-in paying for a hogshead-for ware-housing, selling, -c. c. may
be put down at another dollar.