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If we take the last three years, the import of various foreign' provisions' has exhibited such violent fluctuations, that we must probably attribute the disturbance in some way or other to the war. The following are the Board of Trade returns for The total for was thus nearly million pounds. But this is just one of the cases where inferences concerning consumption must be cautiously made; for we have no means of determining MBT Shoes what ratio the London consumption bore to the total import.Hams may be regarded, practically, as certain parts of bacon cured in a particular way. Taking Westphalia hams as a representative of all, the processes they undergo are something such as this: the hams are piled in deep vessels, and covered with layers of salt, saltpetre, and bay leaves. In this state they are left for some days, after which they are immersed in strong brine, and when this brine has thoroughly soaked into the meat, the hams are steeped for several hours in spring water; they are lastly hung up for two or tory burch outlet three weeks in a smoke formed by burning juniper berries. Most varieties of bacon and ham are cured in a less elaborate way.At Paris the ham trade is conducted MBT Trainers on a different principle from that of London. There has for many ages been a ham fair held in some open place, about Easter, and lasting three or four days; the ham dealers come from every MBT part of France, tory burch flats display their hams on stalls and in booths, and transact a very large amount of business.London, as well as Great Britain generally, is mainly indebted to Ireland and to the United States for a supply of bacon. In America the flitches are packed in boxes weighing about cwts.; while the shoulders, hams, and shanks are shipped in hogsheads of cwt. eachHams are frequently brought in bulk from New Orleans. It is a curious circumstance, characteristic of the low quality of diet in Ireland, that while tory burch shoes the better kinds of Irish bacon are sent to England, MBT Shoes Sale large quantities of cheap American bacon are consumed in Ireland.Although, as above noticed, the imports from Ireland into Great Britain cannot tory burch sale be accurately known, yet an attempt has been made by Mr. M'Culloch to arrive at an approximation to the quantity, from a careful examination of the seven years.