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Excerpt from World Hog and Pork Prospects, 1933: Hp-38 to Hp-49
A statistical summary of the hog and pork situation for the first Quarter of the 1932 - 33 marketing year apnears on vage 7 The reduction in the number of hogs slaughtered during the 3-months neriod of 11 per cent was offset in part by an increase of about 4 oer cent in the average dressed weight. Contrary to the usual seasonal tendency, storage holdings of hog products were slightly reduced from the beginning of the period,october 1, 1932 to the end of the period, December 31, 1932. Exports of pork and lard during the 3 - months period were also slibhtly smaller than a year earlier. As a.resu1t of the decline in storage holdings and the reduced exports, the apparent consumption of pork and lard from Federally inspected production from October to December 1932 was only 2 per cent smaller than a.year earlier, although the reduction in the tdtal dressed weiéht of hog slaughter Was about 7 per cent. Lard production per 100 pounds of live weight during the first Quarter of the current marketing gear Was larger than last year and larger than the 5-year average, but the total lard production under Federal inspection has 3 per cent smaller than last year, because of the relatively greater reduction in hog slaughter. As a result of the reduction in storage holdings of lard and the smaller exports, the apparent consumption of lard from October to December was about 2 per cent larger than in the corresponding period in 1931.
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