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*Smart farmers use the so-called 12-10-1 corn-hog formula to determine whether it is more profitable to sell corn as corn or as pork The formula: when 100 Ib. of hog is worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers dislike fractions