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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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In Brooklyn, Connecticut, 1,130 hogs were fattened and killed in the past season, weighing over 306,000 pounds, generating over $20,000 in value, plus exports of cheese, butter, and grain totaling at least $40,000 revenue. The town of 1,200 inhabitants and 17,000 acres counters 'hard times' through produce.
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Beat this, if you can.—There has been fatted and killed in the town of Brooklyn, Connecticut, the past season, Eleven Hundred and Thirty Hogs, about one half of which were under one year old, weighing Three Hundred and Six Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Seven Pounds. The average weight was two hundred seventy one and a half pounds. The largest hog weighed seven hundred and thirty seven pounds. Two hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and ninety four pounds have been sold. Two persons fatted and killed thirty thousand four hundred and ninety pounds. The above hogs consumed, in fatting, at least 20,000 bushels of grain. They were worth, at the time they were killed, more than 20,000 dollars.
A large quantity of cheese, butter, and grain, has also been exported from the town—thus creating a revenue of at least 40,000 dollars. If every town would equal this in their produce, we should hear no more of the cry of "hard times."
The town township of Brooklyn contains not to exceed 17,000 acres of land, 1200 inhabitants, and 155 dwelling houses.
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Brooklyn, Connecticut
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The Past Season
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The town of Brooklyn, Connecticut, fattened and killed 1,130 hogs weighing 306,757 pounds, with an average of 271.5 pounds and the largest at 737 pounds; 209,794 pounds sold, two persons handled 30,490 pounds, consuming at least 20,000 bushels of grain, worth over $20,000; plus exports of cheese, butter, and grain creating at least $40,000 revenue.