. Types and market classes of live stock. armers and Drovers Journal gives the yearly averageweight and yearly average prices of hogs marketed at Chicagofrom 1905 to 1914, and also the averages for the entire ten-year period. Average Year weight i Pounds i 222 1906 226 1907. 232 216 218 235 228 1912. 226 1913 228 1914. 231 Ten year average 226 Heavy Light packing hogs hogs $ $ $ , $ Pigs $ Mixedhogs 7580558005403560 ;.40 $ $7,05 Allclass
. Types and market classes of live stock. armers and Drovers Journal gives the yearly averageweight and yearly average prices of hogs marketed at Chicagofrom 1905 to 1914, and also the averages for the entire ten-year period. Average Year weight i Pounds i 222 1906 226 1907. 232 216 218 235 228 1912. 226 1913 228 1914. 231 Ten year average 226 Heavy Light packing hogs hogs $ $ $ , $ Pigs $ Mixedhogs 7580558005403560 ;.40 $ $7,05 Allclassses $ $ CHAPTER XXIV. BREEDING FOR THE MARKET. Hog raising has always been a profitable and favorite de-partment of farming in the United States. In colonial timespork production was a very simple matter. Hogs were allowedto run wild in the woods where they fed upon roots and nat-ural grasses and fattened upon acorns and beech and hickorynuts, called mast. The only expense to the farmer was the. Pig. 76. Ciood Type in the Breeding Boar. Chester White boar, Champion at the Iowa State Fair in by Mr. A. B. Somerville of Monroe, la. winter feeding of those too young for market and of thosereserved for breeding purposes. Inasmuch as Indian corn wasthe feed used and as this cereal would not repay the expenseof transportation to market until the introduction of railways,it cost very little to produce pork. Even after the organizationof the national government and the settling up of the Middle 290 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 291 West it was the general impression among farmers that itcost nothing for a man to make his own pork, and for a longtime large numbers of dressed hogs were sold in that sectionof the country at prices ranging from seventy-five cents toone dollar per cwt. and were considered sufficiently remunera-tive at these figures. As greater areas came under cultivation and the naturalforests became more restr
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