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Value or hogs and pigs sold in Rappahannock has been as follows:
1940 1950 1955 $48,192 $160,378 $77,610
The 1955 value represented ap: proximately 11% of the value of - livestofck sold during that year from the county.
Our sow population has been as - follows:
1940 1945 1950 1955 '
738 724 788 599
At the last census these sows were reported on 179 farms on an average of about 3 sows per farm and therefore boar ownership might be on a partnership basis as one boar could easily service 15-30 sows per year. Thus our boar needs shouldn’t be over 60 at any time and, assuming a' two year service(Continued
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63.8%