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may sell in the packing class. Their carcasses are usually 

 disposed of in the same manner as those of packing hogs. 



Boars. 



Boars are sold without dockage, due to which, together 

 with the coarse quality and strong flavor of some of the 

 meat, they sell from $4 to $5 a hundred less than the 

 better classes. The pork is largely used for the manu- 

 facture of sausage. Due to their low selling price, it is 

 more profitable for the farmer to castrate the boars, then 

 fatten and sell as stags, than it is to sell them entire. 



Miscellaneous classes. 



Roasting pigs usually weigh from 15 to 30 pounds and 

 are dressed with head and feet on. During the holiday 

 season they may sell at fancy prices, being handled very 

 much in the same way as poultry. At other seasons they 

 sell at a sacrifice to the grower. 



Although the larger number of pigs now handled as 

 Feeders do not pass through the stockyard centers, never- 

 theless the number found here in the summer and fall 

 has greatly increased during the last few years. It is a 

 class which is beginning to assume considerable impor- 

 tance. 



Governments are hogs which have failed to pass the first 

 government inspection, which occurs before the hogs are 

 weighed. They show evidence of sickness or unsoundness 

 which require them to be slaughtered under special inspec- 

 tion. If the carcass is found to be unsafe for human food, 

 it is condemned and tanked, the products being used in 

 the manufacture of grease and fertilizers. 



Dead hogs which arrive at the yards amount to about 

 .40 per cent of the receipts. These hogs are tanked under 



