Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administrator Chester C. Davis made a three-pronged attack on the price imbalances which have worsened the meat shortage. He lifted by 5? the feed-corn ceiling, which had practically paralyzed the market, in order to start corn moving to cattle growers again. He raised the floor price of hogs from $13.25 to $13.75 to guarantee hog growers a fair return. And for the benefit of packers and the public, he got ready to slap a $14.50 ceiling on live hogs, recently selling...
Nursing Sick Pigs. Best help in preventing hog worms is good pasture rotated so that young pigs (most susceptible to worms) are put on parasite-free soil. Lice, which may cause restlessness and lack of appetite, can be killed by oily dips. Lime and sulfur solution controls mange. In each case, the whole pig must be dipped. Usual system is to make him swim through a dip 40 or more inches deep, duck his head somewhere en route...
...Amateur hog raisers may lose some enthusiasm when they find they may have to nurse hogs through a "list of diseases so lengthy that only a few high points . . . can be mentioned." Examples...
...Hog cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...
...hog" appeared on the Chicago livestock market last week for the first time since October 1920. Expected hog production...