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The increasing value of Spanish hogs
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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The value of hogs [in contrast to beef and horses] was increasing. In 1670, Apalache hogs were quoted at four pesos, delivered to the city. Thirty years later they sold for as much as twenty-five pesos each, in spite of attempts at price control. The Menendez Marquez family owned land east of the St. Johns as well as in Potano. (Sale of Governor Salazar Vallecilla's Estate, October 16, 1651.) Perhaps they turned to raising hogs.
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