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Inferior hogs include packing hogs, Hght hogs, roughs, stags, and 

 boars. There is little incentive to make sorts of inferior hogs. What 

 sorting of them is done is usually incidental to the sorting out of good 

 hogs (the inferior ones remaining), or results from throwing out a few 

 inferior hogs present in otherwise good loads. They are not so fre- 

 quently shipped as are good hogs; they sell largely to local packer 

 buyers. 



Hog Prices at Chicago 



Chicago prices during 1922. — The following prices are available 

 showing the range in price and average price of hogs of different weights 

 at Chicago in 1922:1 



Average 

 Class Range in price [irice 



Packing and butcher hogs, 255-400 lbs $5.25-11.20 $9.05 



Mixed hogs, 195-255 lbs 5.90-11.45 9.30 



Light mixed hogs, 135-195 lbs 6.75-11.50 9.60 



All classes except pigs 9.20 



Pigs 9.15 



Chicago and Kansas City prices in 1921. — Following is a more 

 detailed list of prices at Chicago and Kansas City during 1921: ^ 



Chicago Kansas City 



Class yearly yearly 



average average 



Heavy-weight hogs, 251 lbs. up $8.54 $8.08 



Medium-weight hogs, 201-250 lbs 8.84 8.35 



Light-weight hogs, 151-200 lbs 8.99 8.37 



Light-light hogs, 130-150 lbs 8.92 8.31 



Smooth packing sows, 250 lbs. up 7.74 7.09 



Rough packing sows, 200 lbs. up 7.28 6.52 



Pigs, 130 lbs. down 8.68 



Feeder pigs, 130 lbs. down 8.26 



Bulk of sales 8.54 8.35 



Top price for the year 11.85 11.30 



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 

 1913 to 1922, and also the averages for the entire ten-year period : ^ 



1 Drovers Journal Year Book of Figures for 1922. 

 2U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook, 1921, pp. 724, 725. 

 3 Compiled from Drovers Journal Year Books of Figures. 



