Show I Wide Variations Variations' in the Cost of Producing Pork Wide variations In ln the tile cost of ot producing pro pro- g pork are are shown shown In a survey y made by th the Department of Agriculture l- l ture tUfe of farms firms In Henry county Iowa and Warren county Illinois said to toi I typical pf of hog corn corn farms farms throughout t through rough out Dut the corn corn belt The gr gross ss' ss cost of 44 pounds of marketable pork on ran ed from fiora farms farms in one year ear ranged to 1355 1353 with an average of Production costs on 39 farms in another an an- other y year ar rang ranged d from G. G to 1 1002 1002 10 The 02 with an av average rage of figures are for the the years 1921 and 1922 1022 and are presented merely as as' as' as showing t. t the e variation In costs The variation the department says say's says Indicates the influences s of or care an and l management nt In n the thc ho lot f The farms arms were within i a short short distance c of ot of each other It wa was possible to foll follow w very similar methods within the the the-re re- re gion glon and yet some farms shipped hogs to market costing costin mor more than t a what they cost other farms j 1 Detailed results df t the fIle survey y have l e be been p published in In Department B Bulletin ll No 1381 Cost of Producing Hogs Hogs' in Iowa rova and nd Illinois copies of which l Ich may be had free as lon long as the tho supply sup sup- s supply p- p ply ply lasts upon request to t the e p D De Department of Agriculture Washington DC D.C. D. D C. C |