INDIANA FARMER.
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The Hog Trade.
There is no product of tho farm on the
amount of which we can count with more certainty than that of a lot of pork, to bo ready
for the market at Christmas, nor is there any
other, as to the value of which we can with
less safety make our calculations twelve
months beforehand. The man who surveys
his lot of pigs to-day, knows that ho can make
them net 250 lbs. each by another winter,
but whether that pork will bring him 83,00
or §6,00 por cwt., he has almost nothing
whereon to found an opinion. But certain it
is that that farmer who has a fino lot of fat
hogs ready for thc market this winter stands
a fair chance of being paid for his labor. At
least, the price has been going up, up, ever
since tho last year's market closed, and where
it will stop is still uncertain. But for tho sake
of the consumer, the packer and even the
farmer himself, desire it to make a halt a littlo
short of 810,00.   There seems to be au im
pression abroad that tho number of hogs in
the country is unusually small, and while this
impression continues, the price may be expected still to advance. But it is quite possible, that toward the wind up of the business,
it will be found that such is not the case, and
then will come a "crisis." Ever since tho
closing up ot" the market last winter, at about
§4,00 per cwt., (net,) the figures havo been
gadually rising, until we bear of contracts recently at §0,00, with a still increasing disposition to buy. We have conversed with
farmers from two or three neighboring counties, and are told tho hogs there arc nearly all
under contract. If such is the case over the
country generally, a fall may not bo expected
soon; nor should we think strange to see §8,00
per cwt. were paid for pork the coming winter. But we have no evidenco that it is; and
herein those who are counting on-such figures
may meet with a disappointment. Wero it
not that we aro opposed to selling so long before tho packing season begins, we should say
sell to the first responsible bidder, for 66,00
is surely enough, and thero is quite a chance
to be able to get less. In conclusion wo would
say, that if it is true, as a genileman whohas
been in the hog trade for some years gives as
his settled opinion, th.-tt every pork merchant,
is bound to break sooner or later, there is a
fair chance for some of them to be laid on the
shelf the coming winter; for it rarely happens
that pork bought at -35,00, or over, does not
lighten somebody's purse, and this can hardly fail to be less than an average price the
present season.
JST The apple crop in the vicinity of
Richmond is considerably affected with the
bitter Bot, and we hear complaints of the
same kind from other quarters. There is probably no remedy, at least we do not remember ever to have heard of one. The cause is
even more inexplicable than that of the Potato Rot. We also observe some lots brought
in to market, that were seriously injured.by
hail stones, being bruised before they were
fully grown. This will no doubt cause them
to rot speedily. Some kinds of apples are
very wormy this season.