LARD OIL. This year (1851) there are 40 manufactories of lard oil in Cin cinnati, large and small, which consume on an average the year round 1000 pack ages, of 300 lbs. each, per week, winch is equal to 52,000 packages, or 15,600,000 lbs. per annum—from this there is to be deducted one third for stearine, equal to 5,120,000 lbs., leaving for the oil 10,480,000 lbs., which is equal to 1,810,000 gallons, allowing 8 lbs. to the gallon. Only a few years back the manufacture of lard oil was looked on as nothing, now it occu pies a very prominent position, and has annually a great influence upon the value of the hog. Lard oil may now be said to have taken the place of all other oils for all purposes at the West. Its manufac ture has improved, and will continue until it is quite equal to any other oil. As an application to machinery it is found quite equal to any other which account, added to its value for lighting purposes, its consumption is increasing in the Southern and Western States.
Every town, of any size, when lard can be had, has its factory, as a ready sale is always found for the stearine. Lard, when pressed, yields more oil and less stearine in summer, and less oil and more stearine in winter. The oil is dearer in winter. The manufacture of lard oil is carried on mostly in Cincinnati, the country in every side drawing on it as a centre. Its manu facture is as profitable as any other busi ness of the same capital, its basis being cash. Many of the factories have now temporarily ceased working owing to the present high price of lard, and lard-oil in consequence, has risen from 50 cents up to 90 cents per gallon. (See Ores.)