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AGRICTLTUKAr, I'kICKS 



Wliile the autlior personall}' rcconnncnded to the commission 

 appointed by the Food Administration to investigate cost of pro- 

 ducing hogs, a slightly different weighting, yd nevertheless we 

 will use here the weighting recommended by that committee. The 

 committee assumed that the corn going into the making of a hog 

 was distributed over twelve months ; that during the first month 

 2 per cent of this corn went into the hog or its dam ; the second 

 month, 2 per cent ; third month, 2 per cent ; four month, 3 per cent ; 

 fifth month, 4> per cent; six month, 6 per cent; seventh month, 

 5 per cent ; eighth month, 9 per cent ; ninth month, 15 per cent ; tenth 

 month, 20 per cent ; eleventh month, IT per cent, and twelfth month, 



Illustrating the cleparliiro of actual Cliicaso hog ijrices from the ten-year stan- 

 dard ratio, corrected seasonally. 



15 per cent. Securing composite corn values by this kind of 

 weighting, we find that as an average of the ten-year period, 1907- 

 191f), the Januar}' ratio was 11 bushels; February, 11.6 bushels; 

 March, 12.4 bushels ; April, 12.7 bushels ; May, 12.8 bushels ; June, 

 12.1 bushels; July, 12 bushels; August, 11.8 bushels; September, 

 11.8 bushels; October, 11. 8 bushels; November, 10.6 bushels, and 

 December, 10.4 bushels. 



For sake of example, determine cost of producing liogs for the 

 Chicago market for the month of April, 1918. Corn values month 

 b}' month, beginning April. 1917, were as follows: 144.9 cents, 



