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Show PORK AND PROSPERITY. Tho sensational feature of the food market a year or more ago was the iinprecedcntlv high prices for hogs On March 2S. 1910. the selling rate for live hogs was $10.95 a hundred tho highest it had been In a generation, genera-tion, and in roal money probably the highest It had cvr hecn. Probabl ono reason was the ravages of hog cholera In years Immediately preceding. preced-ing. In Kansas, the great producing stato for these animals, tho pstlmated loss from the disease in 1909 was ?1,-000,000, ?1,-000,000, nnd no doubt that discouraged growors to an extent that reduced the supply appreciably At the beginning of tho following year, however, tho agricultural department nnnouncod tho developmont of a serum which was not onlr a sovereign remedy for the disease, but a prophylactic against its attacks and, pronorlj applied, would render tho animal Immune for life, which In the hlBtory of a hog Is not supposed to be a very extended extend-ed period. Not much has been said about It since, but Inasmuch as tho market has apnarently onjoved unln torrupted prosperity for the last elch-tcen elch-tcen months, a decided oheck from some source has apnaronth- been given giv-en to tho malady There was unusual activity last week In the groat hog markets, of which Kansas Citv Is on6 of the fotemost. On a slnelo day over 42,000 hops were received thero, which exceeded by nearly 2.000 the next largest larg-est previous receipts recorded, which was In January, 1908 The reason given by the commission men is that the wheat harvest is earlier than usual usu-al and tho farmers nro anxious to sell their marketable livestock In order or-der to Uike carp of IL The great supply sup-ply might have been suoposcd to havo a depressing effect upon the market, but Drlces fell off not more than 5 or 10 cents on a hundred, though at closing out sales nt tho end, of tho day some dronped 15 cents Tho saleB were from 56 to ?6.10. qijltc a slump from 1910 prices, but not below a point that leaves to the Industry ono of verv fair profU to those engaged In it Tho h'eh figures of a year ngo naturally drew many into the business busi-ness or led thom to Increase, that In. which they were already engaged. Tho recelots at the five western markets In 1910 were 3.000,000 less than In 1903 and 6,000,000 le6s than In 190S For the Utt'o more than five months of this year tboy havo been 2,250.000 more than for tho same time last year. at which rate thev ought to reach tho high total of three vears airo. Tho lessened prlco of this great staplo. whllo still on a pnylng basis. Is a wholesome condition It favorably affects the "cost of living" problem. |