Description: Map showing the numbers and location of hogs produced in the United States in 1840. "The important centers of hog production in 1840 were in the earliest settled corn-growing regions west of the Allegheny Mountains. Hogs were driven from these regions to the Atlantic coast and to the Cotton Belt to market."— United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook, 1923 Source: , United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook 1922 (Washington D.C., Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923) 187 Map Credit: The Private Collection of Roy Winkelman |
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