Table of Contents 



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CHAPTER XVI 



PAGES 



MARKETING AND MARKETS 362-390 



Marketing 362-368 



Shipping 363-366 



Selling 366-367 



Costs of marketing 367-368 



Shipping hogs by motor truck 368 



Market classes 368-376 



Prime heavy hogs 370 



Butcher hogs 370-371 



Packing hogs 371-372 



Light hogs 372-373 



Pigs 373-374 



Roughs 374 



Stags 374-375 



Boars 375 



Miscellaneous classes 375-376 



Supply and price fluctuations and their usual causes 376-390 



Monthly variations in the supply . . . 377-381 



Variations in the daily supply .... 381-382 



Variations in the yearly supply .... 382-383 



Weight as a factor in supply .... 384-386 



Seasonal variations in price .... 386-388 



Yearly variations in price 388-390 



CHAPTER XVII 



JUDGING 391-419 



Types of hogs 392 



Judging the finished fat barrow of the lard type . 393-401 



Market requirements 393-395 



The score-card 395-401 



Judging the finished barrow of the bacon type . . 401-405 



Market requirements 401-403 



Score-card for bacon hogs 403-405 



Judging breeding hogs of the lard type . . . 406-409 



The breeder's requirements .... 406 



A standard of excellence 406-409 



