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Show Lightweight Hogs To Be Marketed Utah county hog-growers can help send graind to Europe and Asia's starving millions as well as put more money in their own pocket if they make plans now to market their hogs at lighter weights, S. Lavell Bird, county AC A chairman, said this week. The 1946 fall pig goal announced announc-ed on May 10, has been set at 31 million head, 10 per cent below be-low the 1945 fall pig crop to reduce re-duce the feed . requirements for growing them out. In addition, elimination of all feed wastage, increased reliance on pasture and crop by-products and use of other feed conservation measures are stressed in 1946-47 pork production produc-tion plans. Need for all the pork that can be produced efficiently under the present program for grain management man-agement has been emphasized, but that tight feed situation and the great need for grains for foreign relief purposes requires a reduction reduc-tion in fall pig production. In terms of sows farrowed, Utah producers pro-ducers are asked to reduce the number of brood sows about 10 per cent. |