Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's Republican Senator Edward J. Thye, among other public officials, backed them up. He asked for a quick, short Government pork-buying program while the fall hog run is at its height. Said a Benson aide: "The Department of Agriculture is watching the hog market closely, and has already developed machinery for making purchases, should they be deemed necessary. Buying could get under way on short notice." The purchases would amount to something like 170 million lbs., only 1½% of the year's total expected output. But it is big enough to raise prices if compressed...
...white smokehouse. There, ducking under three Tennessee hams and some sides of smoked fatback, he filled a five-gallon grease bucket with wheat shorts, crimped oats and water to make a slop for the four Duroc sows that were nursing their first litters in the orchard lot. To the hog troughs he took the shortest route, leading through the family cemetery behind the house. As the wire gate clicked shut behind him, Joe passed by the chest-high tombstone of his great-grandfather, Samuel Sampson Carver (1847-1938), symbol of a farm era that, although gone, still presses its influence...
...Gainesboro. Under his vocational agriculture teacher, Robert ("Woofie") Fox, Joe began studying the schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper than bearings...
...Beginning to make good money from his Durocs, he decided he could do even better with a modern, sanitary farrowing barn. When his father resisted the idea, Joe and Donald came to a resentful impasse before Thelma intervened with a compromise. Donald ended up contributing $400 toward the new hog barn, with Joe paying another...
High on the Hog. In Atlanta, Edward Scott Holler, 47, released from a two-year term at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, was back in jail five days later because he swiped ten pigs from the prison's farm hired seven boys, four trucks and a Cadillac to haul them away, paid his helpers with phony checks...