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Show America Needs Her Own Market Meat A hog crossed the Canadian border for consumption in the United States on an average of every two minutes dav and night during the first six rJnths of ia27, according to a report of the Dominion department of trade and commerce. Number of hogs shipped to American Ameri-can cities from January to June inclusive in-clusive was 129,716, the report says. This is a striking increase over the 3 636 hogs exported during the same period of 1926. Canadian exports of sheep, the raising of which is making tremendous tremen-dous headway on the small farms of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Saskatche-wan, also showed a substantial increase in-crease during this period from 1,731 to 2.391. Uncle Sam was Canada s best beef customer, imports of this commodity increasing from 5,825,100 pounds in the first half of last year to 13,309,000 pounds in the first half of this year. . . Total ' number of livestock shipped in the six months, an especially satisfactory satis-factory period for Canadian livestock raisers, was 32,001 head as compared with 8,2C3 head shipped to the United Kingdom. In this fiscal year ending June, meat shipped to the United States from the Dominion had a value of $8,259,181, or nearluy twice the value of last year's exports to the estates. |