Show winter swine slaughter shows decided increase during the winter mouths months of december january and february hogs were slaughtered in establishments operating under federal meat inspection this number exceeds the previous record for three months made december 1918 1018 and january and february 1910 1919 by more than one million hogs those who have studied the reasons for this enormous increase say may that many factors are involved increased breeding due to the successful corn com crop for the last two iwo years and a satisfactory is public purchasing kasing power have contributed to the record break ing slaughter the hogs bogs have been somewhat som lighter in weight however than in former years and the large number does not mean such auch a record breaking quantity of pork as the hog slaughter might indicate |