Excerpt from Canada's Livestock and Meat Industry Hog slaughter, on the other hand, dropped sharply by 20 percent during 1960, (after a 27-percent increase in 1959) as a result of a change in the government's hog price sup port program. Such short cyclical movements have been characteristic of Canadian hog production, and will probably continue. 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.