Excerpt from Monthly Consular Reports, Vol. 74: January, February, and March 1904In comparison with that of the previous year, the importation of American bacon last year into this district was only one-half as large, and the prices were high during the entire year. American lard was also scarce and the price high.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.