Show new mew selling system aids hog producers price agreed upon right in the pen under a new system of selling hogs buyers and salesmen at the markets agree on the price right in the pen before the hogs are weighed thus the old weight schedule Is being replaced by a pen to pen system of marketing the buyer Is given a chance to recognize quality and pay a premium tor for good hogs 77 the quality of this chester cheater white sow and litter la Is apparent even to the casual observer but under tho the old weight schedule of selling hogs hoes breed era ars who produce such quality stock would receive nathl nothing ng extra for the added time and care they ahey had expended to bring their hogs to such ft a degree of excellence the tha reason advanced for increased interest in marketing is that the weight schedule system falls fails to recognize the difference between hogs it also falls fails to pay for true quality under the old schedule selling salesmen and buyers at a market would agree in the morning how many hogs each buyer would get A schedule of process was set up according to weight hogs was wab hogs and the scales determined the price buto But that system is gradually being abandoned under the old method farmers judged probable market prices by estimating the weight of their hogs A premium of 50 cents per hundredweight was considered unusual at the market although the real value of hogs hogi of the same weight varies as much as 5 or 8 6 per animal such premiums offered poor pay to the expert producer who raises top quality hogs worth more money I 1 another reason tor for the new system Is the fear that if a better job biot of selling done hogs bogs may be sold on a dressed carcass basis this method of marketing which is used in canada Is being explored plo red by bi many farmers cooperatives agricultural experiment stations and studies under the federal research and marketing act many public market operators also are worried about the decline in volume 0 of hogs 0 a arr arriving v n or an sale a a at terminal markets |