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Show oo MINIMUM PRICE FOR HOGS. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. A minimum mini-mum prico for hogs In the Pacific coast states was fixed today by a voluntary vol-untary agreement between more than thirty packers representing California, Oregon and Washington and the United States food administration, according ac-cording to an announcement here tonight to-night by the federal food commissioner commis-sioner for California. The now minimum price, set at one cent under the food administration minimum effective on tho Chicago market, which now is $15.50 por hundred, hun-dred, was expected, it was said, to result re-sult In a big increase in pork production pro-duction in the states effected by the agreement. |