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...guinea pigs, 12 turtles and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of oppossums, wodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, raccoons, crayfish and sheep. Each winter the farmers of Wake-field and Reading, donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...
...President had tried to lay his hand soothingly on Business (TIME, Aug. 20), but, like a shell-shocked animal, it kept on trembling all the more. Unable to hog-call Business himself, the President dispatched his Secretary of Commerce to the microphone to swear that the "Roosevelt Administration . . . believes in just profits for management and capital" (see p. 17). But businessmen still had the jitters...
...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...