Show N 0 C PRICES AND RECEIPTS FOR 1925 WEEKLY TREND OF HOG PRICES AND RECEIPTS 7 otar HUN JAN FEB MAY AUG OCT HL 0 HM POUNDS F va alk kit 11 LEADING 9 1400 A MARKETS A 2 1350 r S 1300 1250 1150 1100 P CEF al Y L 10 J oswo HOG prices in 1025 according to a market analysis by the sears roebuck agricultural foundation have been the bIgl highest fest since 1020 1920 and amid the number of hogs slaughtered nearly 20 per cent less than in 1924 and 1923 1023 when production was at a record level with prices approximately 50 per cent higher this year than last year hog bog producers have had an especially profet profitable season the range of prices lias has run from 10 to almost 1450 1150 per hundred pounds the peaks being reached in march july and september the ratio between prices of hogs and corn prices turned favorably for the feeder last spring and Is now the best that it has been since 1022 last springs pig crop in the corn belt which Is now coming on the market was estimated to be per cent loss less than the pig crop of the spring of 1924 this indicates that rather high prices are III likely ely to be main maintained taNned during most of I 1 the season unless a very large crop of hogs Is produced and pushed rapidly into the markets excepting Except inZ the months of january and february receipts at the eleven leading markets of the country have gone below the level and from froin june to october have been below the fi inojo mark |