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Show Advises Pushing Hogs to Spread Marketing "Push the pigs" is the advice given to Cache county farmers by the county USDA War board. The faster farmers can push the pigs along, the better for everybody ev-erybody concerned. Ordinarily December and January Janu-ary is the peak marketing season. This year with the big increase in hog production to meet the food production goals, transportation and packing facilities will be overtaxed ov-ertaxed unless the marketing season sea-son is spread out. Early marketing is much preferable pref-erable to late marketing. In other words, as many hogs as possible should be marketed before the peak season, but not by sacrificing weight. We have to depend on lard for about one-fourth of all our domestically produced fats and oils this year. In addition to spring pigs, many Cache county farmers have some fall pigs that are on light feed and pasture. These "carried-over" hogs can certainly go to market earlier. Price ceilings won't permit much of any rise in hog prices, so there is no point in waiting for higher prices. The danger point will start the . last part of November. If farmers wait until then to sell their hogs, they not only may have to take lower prices, but they may have to take turns in marketing. The June pig report shows a major victory on the food front. The Nation's farmers are raising 62 million head of spring pigs, and this year's total farrowings may be about 105,000,000 head. This would be an increase of 23 percent over last year and eighteen and one half million head more than any previous year on record. It will mean that in 1943 we will produce about 2 billion pounds more pork and lard than we are producing this year. Pork and lard are two of the important foods in our United Nations war larder. These figures are bad news for the Axis. |