Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — THE HOG CROP. [ARTICLE]

THE HOG CROP.

Estimates of the National Agricultural I»e---partmoMt . - [Washington special.] The j -September crop report, issued by the Department of Agriculture, says, by way of summarizing the estimates from different localities, of the hog crop: The returns of the number of hogs for fattening indicate about 6 per cent, reduction in numbers. Should prices increase, however, the breeding stock might be depleted and increase the number’s for Slaughtering. There appears to be an increa>e of swine in the Territories and on the Pacific coast. The following figures give the numbers of hogs fattening, as compared with last year, and the average condition as to weight and size. In both cases the figures are percentages: Num- ConState. her. dition. Ohio S 3 95 Michigan , 91 93 Indiana r...... 90 97 —Il 1 lUOia . .-i m rri , i im. 1 ,~u , < 93--Wisconsin 93 95 Min ne SOta —lowa ■ nTWTmi .u 97 Missouri 99 99 Jf&nsas....... ...mt,......... 90 90 Nebraska..... ...............-.. 98 95 Averaging these figures,the number is 94.8 per cent, of last year, and the condition 94 per cent, of an average. The figures for all the States and Territories give the following percentage: Number, 93.7; condition. 93.9. - Dakota reports one-fifth more hogs than last year, and states the condition at 97 per cent. All the other Territories report slightly greater numbers of hogs than last year. Great Britain reports 362,834 fewer swine in 1886 than in 1884, a falling off of 14 per cent. Ireland reports in 1886 the same number of swine as in 1884, and about 180,000 more than in 1885. The province of Ontario reports 860,125 swine in 1886 as against 822,262 in 1885.

Labor and Laborers. Two hundred carpenters in Bath, Me., are on a strike against a reduction. The Cleveland Leader is now fighting a boycott movement. This is its second tussle. Only one person in every two hundred in New York City owns tbe house he lives in. The Dominion Government proposes to establish at once a Bureau of Labor Statistics at Ottawa. Typographical Union, No. 12, of Baltimore, has ordered that all non-union offices be boycotted. „ A co-operative stove company has been organized in Bloomington, 111., with a capital of SIO,OOO. Officers of the Window-Glass Workers’ Association are in New York waiting for the importation of contract workmen from Belgium. ——--,?■■■ ■■ Twelve hundred hands have been discharged in two weeks in the Moquette Carpet Mills, at Yonkers, N. Y., on account, of Loy cott i ng. The Jack Tars of San Fianciseo, to the number of l,(k)0. members of tjie Coast Seamen’s Union, aie idle, and many ships are tied up. . „ The testers of Lynn, Mass., have been frightened over the invention of labor-sav-ing machinery which threatens to throw them out of work. ALL the knit-goods mills at Amsterdam, N- Y-, are controlled by an association which shut-down everything, throwing out 3,000 hands, on a question of unionism. The Knights have grown rapidly in Canada since the recent priestly order was given. There are twenty-three assemblies in toe Topeka (Kan.) district. The Knights of Labor membership is increasing at an unprecedented rata in Cincinnati. A Knight's co-operative store has been organised at Denver.