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Some Observations on Weights of Swine

Secretary National Swine Growers' Association

Abstract

At the present time we are often quite as much concerned with the weights of the animals with which we are working as we are with their ability to convert feed into meat, or with their other qualities. Too often, however, we overrate the importance of size or weight. At the same time it is one of the important factors whether we are breeding animals for the rank and file of meat producers, feeding the animals out for the market, or even if we are interested in the marketing, or preparing for market, the products produced by the other man. Prices are more often based on weights of the animals or their products than on any other single fundamental character.

In the past few years we have heard more about the size of hogs than of any other class of meat-producing animals. The underlying cause for this difference is the change in the standards of many of the different breeds of hogs.