Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sundays. Sometimes he started again at 12:05 a.m. Monday. He examined 6,000 witnesses, heard 20,000,000 words of testimony, indicted 500 men & women. Of those brought to trial, 94% have been convicted. Says modest Judge Ferguson: "My old Dad used to say, 'Even a blind hog will find an occasional acorn if he just keeps his nose down...
...almost as amazed as hog expert Darlington would have been, to see a sow being serviced by a boar, while her young nursed. One of the most fascinating aspects of nature is its variations from the norm. If animals and human beings always acted and reacted according to known formulae, there would be little interest in either, writers would have nothing to write about, and I think the world would be considerably duller...
Reader Darlington's constructive criticism (TIME, April 27) in the review of Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings (TIME, March 23) pertaining to hog breeding is certainly not true in all cases and "hats off" to Miss Rawlings for knowing her hogs...
...specialize in Hampshire hogs and raise better than 200 annually and I know for a fact that a sow will take a boar when suckling pigs. I have seven sows in my orchard with my boar hog. There are also 52 four-week-old pigs with the sows and today I saw the boar service three sows and in a short time their pigs were nursing. All the sows in that field have been bred and all of them have suckling pigs...
Note: Maybe the climate in Virginia is more conducive to hog breeding than it is in California...