Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserving of challenge. Three times Author Stong stubs his toes on pebbles of detail any Iowa 4-H pig club member knows all about. lowans exhibit their pigs in pens, not "cages" as is done in State Fair. One judge and not a committee makes the awards; and the hogs are judged in a show ring where they are paraded skillfully. Never in Iowa would they suffer the injustice of being judged in their pens the way Phil Stong relates. State Fair is interesting-and accurate in describing the way a Hampshire boar eats out of his trough...
...average farmer is an intense individualist whom even the Federal Farm Board has failed to organize fully into cooperatives. Many an Iowa producer out of sympathy with Agitator Reno's strike shipped his stuff by rail to unaffected markets elsewhere. Thus, though Sioux City's daily hog receipts fell from 2,000 to 500, the price of hogs for the State did not rise, dropped instead 25?. The Holiday idea trickled across the Missouri into Nebraska, made further headway in the Dakotas. Illinois. Minnesota, where Governor Floyd B. Olsen favored aiding the strikers with martial law. Separate from...
...Chicago's noisome Packingtown they arrived by carload lots. Penned up in long alleys they rooted, grunted and jostled one another with muddy, clammy snouts. In between them marched the buyers for the great meat companies, poking their porky flanks and paunches with sticks and crying the cry of hogs, "Tsaa, tsaa, tsaa." With swift gestures and few words the buyers made their purchases. Four times a day the results were broadcast and in the great hog States there was gladness on the farms. For last week the price of hogs was still rising. Speculators who had "tried a turn...
Because of a bearish Government forecast, farmers had expected their hogs to fetch bad prices all summer. But last week they were selling as high as $5.15 a hundredweight against $3.40 on June 1. Because farmers have needed money so badly that they have sold their hogs right along it was expected that no sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each hog...
Destiny. When the "tsaa" shouting buyer makes his purchase, the hog's doom is near. Squinting up with quizzical beady eyes or grunting angrily he is sent running over a long viaduct to the packing house. When he reaches the killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes...