Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January AAA sprang its great corn-hog reduction program. The hog part of it provided that every farmer who cut his hog birthrate 25% during 1934 would get a bonus of $5 a head for the other 75%. To many a Midwestern farmer who usually raised 100 hogs this meant $375 of wel- come Government cash if he would raise only 75 hogs. That was what Secretary Wallace had in mind...
...hog-raisers of New England it meant something else. A. F. MacDougal farm agent of Middlesex, the county that is a boundary of Boston, wrote to Washington asking whether Massachusetts farmers could cooperate at $5 a hog-head. "Certainly," came back the answer. Like Paul Revere, County Agent MacDougal spread the news through every Middlesex village and farm. Presently he sent to AAA contracts promising that modest Middlesex would?as a favor and for a price?reduce its production from nearly 100,000 per year to 73,000 hogs...
Investigators went. They checked invoices and freight bills to find out how many pigs Middlesex had shipped in former years. They found that Middlesex consumed very little of that staple hog-food, corn; that only 105 farmers claimed to have raised these 100,000 pigs a year; that the piggeries, situated on back roads, were mostly five or six acres in extent, few over 20 acres. But they also found that on each of those farms were littered anywhere from a few hundred to 6,000 or more pigs a year; that they were nourished on the succulent garbage...
...31¢ a bu., was worth $136,385,000. This year's crop, estimated at not more than 261,000,000 bu. will sell, experts agree, at above 62¢?a total net gain for the State of some $25,000,000 over last year. With last week's hog prices up to $6.65 a cwt. against $2.80 in June, the Des Moines Register & Tribune's able Farm Editor J. S. Russell estimated that Iowa's hog income would be as great as last year's, excluding $70,000,000 to be paid by the AAA for pigs & corn that were...
...crisis since the Nazi blood bath had been reached (TIME, July 9). Either the pudgy, smudge-mustached Chancellor would kick out of his Cabinet such experienced non-Nazi statesmen as Vice Chancellor von Papen and Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath. after which he would go the whole Nazi hog alone, or else these "Balance Wheels" would be retained to steady his careening Government. In Berlin for some days von Papen had been considered politically dead. The strain of living under house arrest, never knowing when his guards might turn executioners, had made the Vice Chancellor's eyes red from...