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Show Orderly Marketing Of Hogs Important Farmers should continue orderly ord-erly marketing of hogs to keep prices up. This warning is particularly partic-ularly important in view of the present unsettled packing house labor situation and the expected heavy movement of hogs to market mar-ket early in January. Producers arc urged to keep in close touch with the markets and to plan their sales in a way to prevent a temporary oversupplv such as occurred about a month ago, when hog prices dropped off 75 cents to SI from ceiling levels. The USDA says that there is an oversupply of pork this winter. The market is strong and supplies sup-plies are still short of demand. But the labor force in many packing plants is not big enough to take care of large increases in hog receipts on short notice. A ticht situation also prevails with respect to transportation facilities facili-ties in moving hogs to distant points for slaughter. Marketings of hogs so far this winter have been behind those during the same period last year. Three factors fact-ors have contributed to this: (1) Late farrowing of the 1945 pig cron (2) plenty of feed in most areas; and (3) no penalty for heavy weights, which has led many farmers to feed later and heavier than usual. Chick Output Up; Goals Are Lower Chick outnut by commercial hatcheries during November was the largest of record for that month 27 nrccnt larger than November of last yenr. Demand for broiler chicks, however, has lessened, with many orders canceled. can-celed. Bookings for snrine delivery deliv-ery ar reported hnvie.r than usual us-ual 19 percent mnm on T)ncm-bcr T)ncm-bcr 1 than on the same date lat ypr. Thit i: comewhat at varianc with 1946 farm coals for chicken ens and c??s, which ?re 17 and 15 norcon. rocnrtively. below tho 195 rmrr-ihrrs duo to the nro-spects nro-spects of sharnlv reduced rennir-pents rennir-pents as a renlt of th end of the war and Vnd-laco and imrrrove- ments in the sunnV of rd meats. Pn To Increase Spring Farrowing Farrow-ing Farmers intend to have about i 4 percent more sows farrow next J cnH"? than were farrowed in the srvinrt 0f 1045. serine intentions tabulated by the Department of AT'iilurr point to farrowings , of ft 542.000 sows next spring. sli"hi1v brrtpr than last year ! and 9 percent above the 10-vear avnmo. Increases were jndicat-i jndicat-i pH for pll rrrjons except in New England, The indicated number of sows to farrow would produce ' a nie eron in line with the national nation-al sarins nSl goal of 52 million head recommended bv the USDA. Fais And O'ls Low Reserve stocks of fats and oils this fqll were at the'r lowest I rmint since 1936. On October l,j factory and warehouse stock totaled one-fo'irth less than a year earlier. Fats and oils are exoccted to continue to be scarce throughout 1946 Ceilings prevented pre-vented any substantial increase aftr 1941 in the general leveNof , prions for fats and oils. With world supolics to continue short in 1946 nries of most fats and oils in the U. S. will remain at ceiling levels. The New Yearbook The Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture will resume publication of its Yearbook in 1947 after discontinuance dis-continuance during the war years. Tentative title of the 1947 edition, which will feature scientific scien-tific progress made during the war, will be "Science and the Farmer." The last edition was published in 1942. It was called "Keeping Livestock Healthy." |