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...under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that amount next year, by rushing to market little pigs before they became big pigs, brood sows before they had another litter. The proposal called...
...slaughter in 46 days of 1,000,000 sows weighing 275 Ib. or more. That would reduce next year's pork supply by 5,000,000 unborn pigs. Packers would pay producers a premium of $4 per sow. With hogs now selling at about $4 per cwt., a 275-lb. sow would thus bring...
...less, thus preventing their glutting the market later at twice their weight. To induce sales, packers would pay above-the-market prices on a sliding scale from $9 per cwt. for 40-pounders or less down to $6 per cwt. for animals between 91 and 100 Ib...
Artist Diego Rivera, lost 125 Ib. (from 310 Ib.) in eight months by substituting thyroid extract for exercise. He also avoided fat-building foods...
Other reducers: Bandman Paul Whiteman shrivelled from 293 Ib. to 189 lb. in one year. He started with a diet of grapefruit juice and green vegetables, and no liquor. For breakfast he had black coffee and grapefruit juice; for lunch some greens, but no dressing; for dinner lean meat and a green vegetable. One day a week his menu was composed entirely of starches and sweets...