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Conclusions. 



The following conclusions may be drawn from the study 

 of the swine carcass and its various products: 



1. In order to bring the highest market price, lard hogs 

 must be fat and well tucked up in the underline. 



2. The greatest demand is for 200- to 300-pound hogs, 

 and hog growers usually obtain the most profit by fattening 

 and selling their hogs at weights ranging from 200 to 275 pounds. 



3. Barrows outsell sows because they carry less cheap 

 meat on the underline. 



4. No other animal equals the lard hog in its fat-storing 

 tendency. 



5. The production of lard hogs furnishes a logical chan- 

 nel of disposal for corn, because corn is a fattening food and 

 lard brings a much higher price than tallow. 



6. Any kind of a hog finds a buyer on the market, but 

 the price paid depends on the kind of carcass the hog will yield. 



7. The development of the packing industry has made 

 an outlet for the plainer sorts of hogs which otherwise would 

 be a drug upon the market. 



8. No other kind of meat comes so nearly being manu- 

 factured by packers as does pork. 



9. Indian corn and the American packing industry have 

 combined to develop the American swine industry into a busi- 

 ness of mammoth proportions. Corn, properly supplemented, 

 makes pork economically, and pork finds ready sale because 

 packers have discovered many ways of placing pork on the 

 market in attractive and highly palatable form combined with 

 most excellent keeping qualities. 



