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Show HOG PRICES SOAR TOWARD HIGHEST WAR TIME PRICE CHICAGO, April 1 Hog prices passe. I the $2' upward bound today when they were quoted at 120.10 per hundred at the stock yards. The highest high-est wartime price was $21, last fall, During the winter prices dropped slightly under flS, bin have been advancing ad-vancing since the government minimum mini-mum price guarantee was taken off yearly a month aso. At the United States bureau of markets this recent advance was ascribed to heavy demand de-mand coupled with tho fact that the Iwiuter run of hogs was largely shipped jout during the winter, leaving the sup-! sup-! Ply comparatively light until the new I run of hogs begins in May or June. |