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Show News In Brief BTATK TO (illAUK TURK K Yf J Bevi-JiU-en Htat-f will market turkeys tur-keys under Federal grade tills year. Grading schools will be held during October and November In 12 or more BtuU-ft-ln Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Montima, North Dakota, Minnesota, Min-nesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma Texas, Ohio, New York and probably probab-ly California. Attendants will be taught free by representatives of the Bureau of Agricultural Kconomicfi the technique of grading birds according ac-cording to federal (Standards. Bureau poultry marketing officials offic-ials estimate that about 30,000,000 pounds of turkeys were graded lait year, or about 25 per cent of the birds going to the big central markets. mar-kets. The use of the Federal turkey grading system has greatly increased in recent years. In each State the local agricultural extension and marketing officials cooperate In the turkey grading work. FEWER HOGS THIS FALL Fewer hogs going to market this fall than last, but a considerable Increase In-crease in the 1933 spring pig crop were reported in prospect, this week, by the Eureau of Agricultural Eco- . nomics. And in view of the somewhat some-what smaller tonnage of hogs to be marketed this fall and winter and with fairly high levels of consumer demand for meats, the Bureau expects ex-pects hog prices to average at least as high as a year ago when the average price at Chicago was about $9.90 a hundred pounds. A "very favorable" corn-hog price ratio was reported In view of the larger supply sup-ply and lower prices of com this fall. WHEAT, CORN ESTIMATES The Government's wheat and corn crop estimates were revised slightly upward this week as the Department of Agriculture predicted yields per acre of all farm products harvested "will average higher than in any recent year." A 2,561,936,000 bushel corn crop was forecast and an 836,895,000 bushel wheat crop. |