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MEAT INCREASE | AT TNENEEDEDProducers Responded Nobly When Demand Was Shown to Them.CATTLE AND HOG FIGURES.Government Justified In Pork Policy Which Nov’ Provides Chief Supply to Meet Three Billion Pound Fat Shortage.In line with the geheral plan of conservation formulated by the U. S. Food ; Administration immediately following 1 the entrance of the United States into the war the contribution made by the meat producers of this country to the . war program is of particular significance, as It demonstrates the hearty co-operation accorded the Food Administration by the moat producers of the country. |According to reports of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, there was , an increase in cuttle of 10,238,000 head and 12,441,000 hogs, these figures com-1 piled to January 1 laBt. In the same period there was a decrease of 819,000 head of sheep, but indications are this decrease will show an increase follow- j ing the latest reports. ISince ,January 1 unofficial Information indicates an Increase in hogs of not less than eight per cent, and not more than fifteen per cent, compared with one year ago, with an Increase in average weight.Following the request of the Food | Administration for increase in liog 1 nroduction for the fall of 1918 and tlie
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Upper Des Moines Republican
Algona, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 01, 1919
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