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Excerpt from The Market in Japan for U. S. Livestock and Meat Products Domestic hides and skins come onto the market in a wet-salted condi tion. The dealer cures tham.in his hide cellars. Although two saltings are standard, many hides receive a third salting. Domestic hides generally command a higher price than the imported ones. Progress in production and distribution of meat and livestock products has been offset by continued rapid population growth. Thus, although meat production increased 125 percent from the 193640 average to 1958, per capita consumption has remained very low. Only pounds of meat were consumed by the average Japanese during 1958. Almost 88 percent of Japan's tallow supply goes into soap manufacturing. About 1] percent is used by margarine manufacturers, 3 percent by lubricant and grease manufacturers, and 1+ percent by other industrial users. Only 1 percent is used for direct human consumption. No tallow is used in animal feeds in Japan at present. Soap consumption has risen rapidly in recent years. In 1958, about 730 million pounds of soap were produced, 3 percent above 1957, and 57 per cent above the prewar (193640) average. However, Japanese soap and detergent consumption remains very 10w-8 pounds per person in 1958-compared with 26 pounds for the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.