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Food Preservation. Radiation may prove itself a cheap and convenient method to kill bugs in stored grain. Army Quartermaster tests show that radiation will also cut spoilage in onions and potatoes, preserve bread, chicken, pork and some vegetables without refrigeration, extend the refrigerated shelf life of beef and lamb as much as ten times. In five to 20 years food radiation will be a sizable industry...
...RATE PORK SALES to help farmers dispose of the huge hog surplus are catching on in the Midwest. Aided by bankers and local merchants, farmers near Vinton Iowa put 20,000 Ibs. of pork on sale to consumers at prices 8? to 10? below wholesale levels, were sold out in minutes. Dozens of other towns in the hog belt are planning similar sales...
...PORK GLUT is getting worse despite a Government buying program. Farmers are sending so many hogs to Midwest markets (170,000 head in a single day last week) that prices have slumped to $12.75 per 100 Ibs., down $1.25 in a week and the lowest level in 14 years...
...money by selling his corn or by feeding it to his hogs (it takes about 9 bu. of shelled corn to put 100 lbs. on a hog). When the price of corn is low in relation to that of hogs, it is more profitable to turn the corn into pork; that was the case through most of 1954, with the result that the 1954 fall pig crop was 16% bigger than in 1953, and the 1955 spring pig crop was 9% bigger than in 1954. To swell the hog population still further, free corn prices on the market have been...
Because of the prospect for more big pig crops, it looked as if Secretary Benson might be pressured by Congressmen into buying up pork. The program would be applied mainly at the processing level-a limited purchasing agreement aimed at cured shoulders, hams and bacon which the Agriculture Department could quickly dispose of through school lunch programs, hospitals and other charitable organizations...