Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monkeys, canaries, racoons, crayfish, and sheep. Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield and Beading donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...
...Farm Administration announced a month ago that it would buy 4, 000,000 young pigs and 1,000,000 farrowing sows at a premium ($9.50 per 100 lb. for 25-pounders down to $6 on 100-pounders, and $4 a head flat on farrowing sows). Farmers expecting better hog prices next year cannily held back their farrowing sows, sold the Government only 200,000 up to last week. But so eager were farmers to be rid of young hogs that shipments poured in. With over 3,000,000 already received the Administration raised its quota last week...
...light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying up 5,000,000 hogs (4,000,000 young animals, 1,000,000 sows about to litter.) The 5,000,000 hogs will be used to feed the unemployed...
...crop) next year. Said Mr. Wallace: "I am not worried about this emergency program. But I am terribly concerned lest the Corn Belt should fail to recognize how really dangerous this program can be unless it is tied up closely to a long-term program [reduction of corn and hog production next year]. . . . The after-effects otherwise would be disastrous to hog prices for the 1934-35 season and for some time thereafter. . . . The real solution must come from the farmers themselves. No fairy wand can be waved over agricultural markets so that they will receive better prices...
Packers were to sell their emergency hog purchases as pork to relief agencies at a nominal sum, as fat to soap manufacturers, as tankage to fertilizer dealers. The A. A. A. was to reimburse them for the bounties they paid out to hog raisers. The scheme would cost the Government up to $65,000,000. That sum would be derived from applying a regular processing tax to ali pork products which packers could pass on to consumers of ham, bacon, sausage, chops, lard...