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Show Hogs Adopt 'New Look'; They're Thinner and Longer LANSING, MICH. It shouldn't happen to a hog. But the fashionable, modern model hog is coming out with an entirely "new look." Falling in line with ordinary hu-1 man beings, this year's crop of i hogs will be longer and thinner than the war models. Naturally the hogs have nothing to do with it. According to W. N. McMillen, swine specialist at Michigan State college, hogs which the meat packers pack-ers and pork producers want vary with the public demand and the need for lard. During the war there was a tendency to produce short thick hogs to meet the public demand and the demands from government for lard. Swine authorities now claim the trend is swinging to a longer hog with less fat, which makes for more plates of bacon, loins, chops and hams. "Stylish stout" hogs won't stand a chance of copping a blue ribbon at the county fairs, McMillen said. "Hogs with the classiest chassis will have the appearance of a well-fed well-fed Greyhound," he added. |