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Show jsaie of it in the United Kingdom , is steadily increasing. Last fiscal year our exports of bacon amounted amount-ed to 702, 135, practically nil of it being sold on the British market. mar-ket. The secret of its excellence, and of the British partiality for it, is that it is pea-fed. It is not fat oily stuff like the product of the gross sides that are nourished on i the corn of the western states. If I we feed corn to our hogs there i will be a loss in quality, a falling i off in the British demand, and de-c'dne de-c'dne mi the prices paid for hogs, i Last e:u, while Western farmers got an average price of $3.80 for their hogs, Ontario farmers got $4.07. The difference in xrice iinipvui.'y due to superior feed, ;.'ulv;uii e in favor of Canadain ' ho:.-?, ; mounting lo an enormous sum in v year, is one of the returns , on farming likely to be wiped out by free corn. Oregon Agrinul-1 Agrinul-1 turist. COHNvs. PEA-FED BACON. In an article protesting against patting corn on the free list in the Canadian tariff the Toronto "Empire"' "Em-pire"' says: The cheap corn is likly to work the pork-raising industry serious harm, and to take money out of the farmer's pocket in that great line of production. There is no finer, more toothsome bacon in the . world than that produced in Canada. Can-ada. Every year it is winning more and more the preference of British consumers. Against tho choice cures of Ireland and Denmark, the |