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When the razorback hog grows feathers...
William S. ("Hog Jaw") Taylor was his name. He was the candidate who had the Governor's office while Goebel contested it. At his trial it was testified that he offered $2,500 to the man who would shoot Goebel. When Goebel was declared Governor by the Legislature, "Governor" Taylor's friends had assembled an army of 1,500 hillbillies in Frankfort for a finish fight. After the shooting, "Governor" Taylor called out the Militia. Frankfort seethed for weeks...
...other, but not both unless you can keep them well separated." "$2,500,000 worth of cabbages went into sauerkraut in a recent year. About one-seventh the whole commercial cabbage crop made 18,000,000 gallons of sauerkraut; sold for more than $3,500,000.* "Hog mange affects the choicest parts of hogs; hams, shoulders, bacon; forces disastrous price slashing. Farmers' Bulletin 1085 gives full, explicit direction for control and prevention. Statistics on hog cholera discloses an average loss of $30,000,000 a year for 40 years. Immunization of suckling pigs is strongly urged, especially...
Soap. Thoroughgoing in most White House economies, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge failed to perform one of the oldest and simplest housewifely tasks. Had she liked, she might have gone into the kitchen, selected a few goodly-sized pans, mixed animal fats (ox, hog) with oils (cottonseed, coconut) and lye-then put the mixture to boil. When it had reached a proper consistency, she would have run it off into frames, allowed it to cool and harden. Without much difficulty, she would have made enough soap to stock the White House bathrooms and kitchens for many a month...
Chicago finance has its delicacies of shade no less fine than those of Manhattan's stock market. Example: last week's "corn & hog parity" got alarmingly out of line. Dollar a bushel corn equals $10 per cwt. hogs or something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus...