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Show Ceilings Drop On Pork Cuts Celling prices on certain wholesale whole-sale pork cuts have been reduced by one-h;i!f to one cent a pound throughout the country, . Guy Cardon, chairman of the Cache county w;ir price and rationing board s.ild today. "Tlie reductions, effective January Jan-uary 22, will be passed on to the consumer," the chairman said. "Ceiling prices for wholesale cuts of smoked loins and rough shoulders, should-ers, neck-bone in, have been re. dueed approximately one dollar a hundred, and fresh or frozen shoulders (neck' bone in) are reduced re-duced approximately fifty cents a hundredweight. The ceiling on imported hams has been reduced $7.00 a hundred-weight." Today's action results from a diversion of unusually large numbers num-bers of green loins into smoke houses because of the higher price formerly established for this product, and from a desire of in. 'duslry to encourage the production produc-tion nf rnilfh tjhmilrtprc nnr-lr I bone out, - to a normal relationship relation-ship with rough shoulder, neck bone in. The amendment further authorizes au-thorizes the production of country back bone by farmers who do their own slaughtering. Previously Previous-ly the regulation only gave commercial com-mercial specifications for cutting "back bone." It was found that in rural areas farmers who slaughter their own hogs and sell the cuts did not have the facili. ties for cutting "back bone" according ac-cording to commercial specifications. specifica-tions. Only consumers in rural areas are expected to purchase this item. |