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When the farmers up in Aroostook County grew too many potatoes, the government stepped in and bought the extra. When the hog growers out Iowa way raised too many pigs, the government stepped in and bought up the glut. But when the Johnson Company canned an oversupply of Bestoval Cocktail Fruit Mixture last fall no one came to their aid. A serious cut in the price of cocktail fruit mixture threatened! If the University authorities hadn't acted decicevly right then, there is no telling what might have happened...
Through the centuries, the hog has obligingly accommodated himself to man's changing tastes and needs. Refrigeration put an end to the small-boned, fat-heavy hogs; consumers wanted leaner meat. But hog farmers, working to breed their animal out of the barrel and into the icebox, soon found themselves in another fix: the big-boned hogs of the early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally...
Today is Ground Hog...
Near Stara Pazova I came upon an old peasant leaning over a fence and talking to a hog. Through my interpreter, I asked him why he hadn't joined the local zadruga (cooperative). He stared at me for a long time. Then he reached down with a long-fingered hand and picked up a piece of his soil, black...
Meanwhile, CCC went ahead with plans to pile more food on its mountain of surpluses. Last week it decided that hog prices, which had tumbled, would continue falling, prepared to support them at $14.90 a 100 Ibs. at the farm...