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some or tnese corn dcu increases apparently are sows and gilts farmers are folding for breeding. In Iowa for. instance, June 1 hog numbers six months and over were 9 percent above a year earlier, but if you subtract the sows, the number of market hogs is only 3 percent higher.
The nation’s farmers told the Crop Reporting Service in June that they intendetf to farrow 13 percent more sows from' June through November.
Its! still anybody's guess* how many will actually, be held — or why Corn belt hog numbers are up * so much more than the nations.
The hog market went up soind^ last week, reacting to pre-holiday, reductions in receipts.^Rijhmond was up a quarter at $245*1" 'To $24.75 and western markets up 75 cents to a dollar at $24.50 to $25. Baltimore w^s paying $26.25
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