Progressive Opinion | 1943-06-11 | Page 2 | Import Hog Bristles

Import Hog Bristles Before the war the United States imported every year about 6,000,000 pounds of hog bristles from northern China, Manchuria and Russia. Whole families in these countries made their living by plucking the bristles by hand from slaughtered hogs. Hogs raised in America have equally good bristles, but few have been collected here in the last 50 years because it was impossible to compete with the cheap hand labor of, Russia and the Orient.