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Meat type hogs drive pork market says swine school notes
Texas swine school attendees pressed lean meat type hogs as the key to satisfying housewives demand for lean cuts. Carroll Plager of Austin Minn and A D Whatley Jr of Oklahoma outlined breeding and feeding methods to reduce backfat and weight gain. The session featured the probe method to measure backfat and notes on cost savings from leaner hog production.
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Texas
Tolano County
Texas Agm
Carroll Plager
Austin
Minn
Plager
T. D. Tanksley
A. D. Whatley, Jr
University of Oklahoma
Towa State College
Whatley
Oklahoma
Swine School
Fred Hale
Lexus Agm