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TYPES AND MARKET CLASSES OF LIVE STOCK 



weigh less, they are held in payment of the cost of handling and 

 the shipper gets no return. Actual count of dead stock removed 

 from cars at Chicago, as made by the U. S. Bureau of Animal 

 Industry for a period of two years, showed the number to be 1 

 out of 2500 cattle, 1 out of 164 calves, 1 out of 526 sheep, and 

 1 out of 244 hogs. 



Hog Prices at Chicago. 



Chicago prices in 1918.* On Monday, Sept. 16, 1918, two 

 loads of butcher hogs, averaging 214 and 249 pounds respectively, 

 sold at $20.95, the highest record for carload lots on the Chicago 

 open market. On the same day 32 head averaging 192 pounds 

 sold at $21.00, and ten loads averaging from 194 to 246 pounds 

 sold at $20.90. On Nov. 25, 1907, the general average price 

 on the Chicago market was $3.96. In 1896 whole droves of 

 packing hogs sold between $2.70 and $3.00, and the extreme 

 range of prices that year was $2.40 to $4.45. The very heavy 

 demand for pork products during the World War resulted in 

 new record top prices and new record average prices for all 

 classes of hogs at Chicago in 1918. 



Market values of the various classes. No detailed records 

 are kept of the average prices made by the various market 

 classes of hogs on the Chicago market. The following table 

 gives the yearly average weights and yearly average prices of 

 hogs marketed at Chicago from 1909 to 1918, and also the aver- 

 ages for the entire ten-year period. 



* Year Book of Figures, 1919. 



