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TABLE 2. Volume of animals units sold through auction markets in the North Cenral Piedmont area , by auction location, 1986 . Siler Hills- Danville South City Borough Oxford Va . Boston ,Va . Volume of animal unit sold , 1986 Weekly markets 143 , 468 13 ,460 10, 424 7 , 534 16 , 763 Special sales 3, 611 3, 150 2, 146 none none a Average per week 2 , 775 327 237 151 335 a Number of weekly and special sales per year : S.C . cattle 51 , hogs 50, pigs 49 , special 3; Hills. cattle 51 , hogs 50, pigs 23, special 3; Oxford cattle 49 , hogs 48 , pigs 48 , special 2. Dan- ville cattle 50, hogs 50; S.B. cattle 50, hogs 50. The number of animals sold through the five principal auctions in the North Central Piedmont area is 197 , 406 . This exceeds the amount available for sale in the area by more than 86,000. Either animals are imported into the area to be sold , or the yearly output numbers in Table 1 are underestimated due to multiple sales of some animals. The Hillsborough market is third in size in the area . Producers now using Hillsborough to market their cattle and hogs have available the markets in the other four locations . Virginia does not conduct feeder pig sales at their locations . Hills- borough feeder pigs would have available only the auction markets in Siler City and Oxford . Except for the volume of special sales , it does not appear that capacities in the four other sale locations would limit absorption of Hillsborough ' s marketings should it cease to exist .