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Show "Pros: pets f cr a good rate of hog- xarketing this sulnmer call attention atten-tion to the fact that the old packing pack-ing season of the livestock trade no jenger holds good," reports Colin Kennedy, hi sucessful Farming for August. "Wheather due to shifts in r.og raising and marketing, or to o' flanges in market outlets and eating eat-ing habits, or both, recent years l-re seen raoiicil changes in the handling of the hog kill. A lot of pork that used to be stored is nq.v being sold fresh in cuts ar.d shapes no; dreamed cf a few years a;o. Even bams are in packer (hands days instead of mcnths, thanks to quick curing mt'.tods. And the percentage cf the remainder that formerly went into long time cure ani storage is finding its way into cans or into f ?.usage." |