. Types and market classes of live stock. and Schaffer of Middletown, Ohio, packed in 1870a lot of thirty-eight Poland-China hogs averaging 613 poundsgross at 21 months old, all fattened by one man in ButlerCounty. Following are records of a large number of hogs(Poland-Chinas) raised in Butler County, Ohio, and sold topackers in 1870: imber of Average Gross Number of Average G-^oss hogs weight hogs weight 80 574 20 501 40 516 45 536 38 570 75 493 48 513 60 490 42 517 40 713 40 504 12 773 296 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock There is record of one lot of 30 Poland-Chinas marketedin 1870 t
. Types and market classes of live stock. and Schaffer of Middletown, Ohio, packed in 1870a lot of thirty-eight Poland-China hogs averaging 613 poundsgross at 21 months old, all fattened by one man in ButlerCounty. Following are records of a large number of hogs(Poland-Chinas) raised in Butler County, Ohio, and sold topackers in 1870: imber of Average Gross Number of Average G-^oss hogs weight hogs weight 80 574 20 501 40 516 45 536 38 570 75 493 48 513 60 490 42 517 40 713 40 504 12 773 296 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock There is record of one lot of 30 Poland-Chinas marketedin 1870 that averaged gross 384 pounds at eleven months ofage, while another lot of ten of the same breed and age mar-keted in that year averaged 410 pounds gross. The immense weights of earher times were made possibleby cheap corn, by the premium paid for heavy hogs by pack-ers in those days, and by selecting hogs of great weight forbreeding purposes. During late years the tendency has beento market handy-weight hogs, and fewer heavy hogs appear. Fig. 77. Good Type in the Breeding Sow. Hampshire sow, Gloria 2d, Champion at the Iowa State Fair in by Mr. Russell Yates of Palo, la. on the market each year. This change has been broughtabout by the high price of corn, by improved methods of pack-ing which permit hogs of less fatness and hghter weight tofind favor with packers, by the general tendency on the partof the consumer to favor light cuts, and by the growing de-mand for bacon in place of the old-fashioned, heavy saltmeats. The breeder also has played a part in this change tothe handy-weight market hog, by giving preference to hogs Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 297 of quality and smoothness over those of large size and tend-ing toward roughness and lack of quality. In fact some breedshave actually deteriorated of late years because of the factthat most of the breeders have gone too far in the matter ofsecuring quality and refinement in their animals and havefailed
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