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Show LIVE HOG PRICES FURTHER REDUCED CHICAGO. Oct. 22. Shrinkage in the value of hogs went to an extreme degree today at the stockyards lie re. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing that prices had declined in some 1 cases yesterday as much as SI a hundredweight, hundred-weight, the market, this morning ruled in general 1o "cents 'to. 1 still lower. For the first time in a long while sales were made below $12 a hundredweight, and numerous animals changed ownership down as far as $11.50. Unusually heavy marketing of bogs recently re-cently to- avoid- high costs of feed la the chief reason assigned for the dcmoraliza-I dcmoraliza-I tlon of values. One of the immediate ' effects of this demoralization was pronounced pro-nounced weakness today in the price of grain and provisions. |