PORK MARKET
STABILISATION SCHEME. j REDUCING HOG POPULATION. " WASHINGTON, August 26. The agricultural adjustment administration .has decided to .remove 4.000.000 young pigs and 1,000,000 brood sows from the hog population of the United States. The objective tig to stabilise the pork products market by eliminating '500,000,8001b. of pork. The method adopted ig a guarantee of special prices of six to nine cents a. lb. for 4,000,000 young porkers of 25 to lOOlb. weight, marketed between now and Christmas.
A premium of four dollars a head is also announced for marketing .1,000,000 sows ready to farrow, thus tremendously reducing the baby pig population. A gpecial processing tax against packers will provide a bonus to induce farmers to keep down hog production. Affcr the New Year, marketing of hogs weighing■ more than 2351 b. will be prohibited by the imposition of excess taxes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 6
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141PORK MARKET Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 6
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