Show Spring Pigs Fewest In Years Years Increase Expected This Fall This years pears rs r's pig crop will be the th smallest in in many y years s says caya the Bureau of Agricultural Economies on the basis of its spring pig cro report The reduced production is ia attrib attributed to last summers summer's drought drough production which shrunk feed grain tion Uon to tho the smallest t volume in inmany many years to the low price price ol of hogs last year and to the unfavorable unfavorable unfavorable able hog-corn hog ratio The spring pig crop of 1935 was waa wa 20 per cent smaller than the tho small smon spring crop of 1394 a a crease dc-crease of about 7 head bead Decreased pro production in the Corn Belt is es- es es estimated at 22 per cent The Bureau points out out however that the downward trend of hog boft production has ended e the number fallis of sows sews to farrow arrow next taU fall is estimated at 19 per cent more than the number farrowed in the fall of 1934 |