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Show Wartime Champion t a. j Attention was sharply focused upon a changed post-war hog pro duction by the selection of this 230 pound lightweight Hampshire barrow as the Grand Champion over all breeds at the recent Chicago Market .Fat Stock Show, wartime version of the International Livestock Live-stock Exposition. Clean-cut and firm fleshed, carrying a high proportion propor-tion of meat cuts -in ham, loin, and bacon, and with a minimum of lard, he exemplifies the meat type hog advocated to meet the post-war iproblem of excess lard production. i Champions of this top-ranking show were judged by R. L. Pem-berton Pem-berton of Des Moines, Iowa, field secretary of the Iowa Swine Producers' Pro-ducers' Association and executive secretary of the Wartime Swine, Industry Council. He stated that a meat type hog with a higher yield of ham, loin, and bacon,' which could be readily finished at around 225 pounds or which could be carried on to heavier weights when the market situation justified, would best meet the production needs of the future. This Hampshire Grand Champion, Purdue Mode! 9th, was bred ahd exhibited by Purdue University, LaFayette, Indiana. He came in a husky litter of 10 pigs raised. Farrowed on June 4th, he weighed 230 pounds at the show when just 180 davs old. In exactly 6 months t from birth to market, that is making market topping pork at the rate of more than 1 'A pounds for every day he lived. |