Excerpt from World Hog and Pork Prospects, Vol. 50: January 17, 1934 Hog numbers in Germany at the end of 1933 were estimated to be the largest on record. The increase over a year earlier was 4 percent, but the current estimate is only slightly larger than that at the end of 1931. In the United States a decrease of 3 percent in the 1933 fall pig crop compared with 1932 was indicated by the December Pig Crop report. A decrease was also indicated in the number of sows to farrow in the spring of 1934. Hog prices declined during December in both domestic and foreign markets. The average price for the month in the United States was only slightly higher than the very low level reached in December 1932. Inspected slaughter in this country during the period from October to December 1933 was about the same as a year earlier. Slaughter supplies during the remainder of the winter are expected to be smaller than last year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.