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We see the farmers throwing it out to the stock. We have so many cattle and hogs in our country that if we could drive them in single file they would form two lines long enough to guard our wagon train of corn as it is stretched round the globe. In such a march the noisiest animals would be the hogs. There would be more than forty millions of them, grunting and squealing as they fol- lowed the wagons. Corn is the chief food of hogs. By feeding it to them the farmer turns his corn into pork, thu...s making the hogs manufacture the corn into an article that can be easily sold. The people of Europe will not buy much corn, but they 64 THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. are glad to get our meat ; and so, through this corn belt where we are traveling, we shall find vast establishments devoted to the killing of hogs and preparing their meat for sale. These are known as packing houses. We may visit them at Omaha, Kansas City, and St. Louis. Here hun- dreds of thousands of hogs are killed every year, and from here their meat is shipped to all parts of the world.
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