The Exeter Times, 1921-9-1, Page 677, 7
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teeord Steeke of Lerd Ian, brrilir of legs that de not make
The uselessness a eareeene lee' select AV:leshire sides silo dd set rid
hreedere trying to enter the fat leo
lielchie peeved by the preeent getate
state oil the lard market across th
line. Heavy hogs, fox years pee
leave aeon theaply fed on the en
ia-oducts in these States, known
"The Corn 13elt," Arid there deeeiopc
geverel edj oi haga etieh asth
Durctieldersey, the Polarad-China ;tot
the Hampshire, which were raeitiu
Tally fitted -fur the Americen recke
trade, Since wee- endedt, however, th
inerease in propatestions of vegetabl
oils as serbstitutes tor lard in ccekirt
have -reclueed the demand for the let
ter very considerably and, be -day, no
enly is the esport i lerd front Ani
eraser: ports eery much smaller thaa
it ed to be, •buf even the deniestie
eiemption be rearitedly.
The "Market Reporter' for Judy 23,
undee the heiailleg "Cold Stoxage
Meeks erf Lard Break All Reeorde,"
crts
Steelte of lard dn. cold etor.age om
July 1 nine anted to 205,878,000 lbs.,
ocentresidd eidith 103,316,000 lbs. on the
tame date last year. Excluding these
two years the average stocks on July
1 have, in the past, averaged an:groat-
s-el:tele 95,600,000 lbs. Of the 205,-
873,000 lbs. Led crt Jelly 1, 114,981,000
lbs., or 56 pm eent., were stored' in
Chletago. The production during June
was 131,57i1C•00 laze compared with
127,028,00S lies, in June, 1920, and
100,489,000 lbs. in June, 1919. During
the first six menthe of 1021. the pro-
of iard wets 785,057,000 lbs.,
eared with 717,718,000 lbs. for the
corre-spondirg period of 1920, an in -
ease of 67,339,000 lbs., or 94 per
cent. Dueing 1.919 the pro:auction
awing the same perith was only 594,-
976,000 lbs.
igeanwhile the price of lard, regu-
lated by a world-wide d'errauld, has
dropped by roundly 50 eee.x cent. Within
a year. For inatanee, the wholesale
priee ef lard in bulk in Toronto in
June last averagedi15 teente patella,
while im June, 1920, it was 304 cents
a pound—a decrease of oettaaly -51
per eent.--and advertisements in the
daily peess show that the retail prices
corresponded: closely with the whole-
:22de,
In Canada, where breeding for
thirty years has been steadfastly
turned away from the attempt to
compete in fat hog raising on our
xverthern feed e es against those in the
eeeeebea .the supply of' lard lias neaer
bem excessive. The thick fat of the
hog that yields lead hes rightly been
colisidereclrhere e. draw -back to profit-
able leaeon produetion. Sunpliesin
eold storage in the Dominion on July
1 were, 2,141,754 lbs., a drop of round -
900,000 the. since &WU? 1, but about
the same quantity as was held in store
en January 1.
It cannot be too clearly understood
that the demand foe lard has been the
seceend teeter in the Amerioan, fat hog
trade. That trade never bathe footing
in Canada, Where the best efforts have
• ef them tea eletelt with the breeds
a a1ic ty,p(,.s tbat de.
c, Fight the Parasites Now.
n It is, a conimon idea that inte.stiteal
and other 'parasites -only . need be
d cell:bitted in sei.hig and seammee. That
e is a mistake'. Some of the most im-
pertarit lams of the ea:up:lige are
- applied before winter sate in,
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