Word: litters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long journey. The doctor and I had a box of food and killed a sheep which we put in a burlap bag, for emergency, but someone has stolen these already and we will have to manage to get along on a can of cheese we discovered in the litter of belongings in this abandoned Headquarters. Our supply of boiled water is very low and unless we soon find Stilwell I am afraid we must drink whatever we can find in the dirty ditches along the way. Everything is happening so quickly that I cannot write a coordinated story...
...TIME, March 23]. And ... I wish to state that Miss Rawlings clearly does not know her hogs. . . . She states on p. 263 that a sow was suckling pigs and at the same time being serviced by a boar. A sow will refuse to take a boar until her previous litter are weaned. However in three days after the pigs are weaned she is willing to take. In this respect hogs are smarter than men and women as they thereby gain strength to support adequately the new litter. I have raised many hogs and . . . know for a fact as any informed...
...cannon. All four of the Germans were hit and one caught fire. The German fusillade punched 150 holes in one of the Spitfires and broke its elevator cable. But its pilot kept it in the air for a hundred homeward miles and landed safely. Reconnaissance planes found only a litter of wreckage mingled with Nazi corpses, bobbing up & down on the water...
Author Rawlings wondered why Mr. Martin would take a scrawny sow. Mr. Higgenbotham explained. "Well, when you figger on a sow, you figger on more than a sow. You buy you a sow, and directly you've got a litter of pigs to boot. . . . Now I'm carrying that sow there to Mr. Martin's boar hog. You know sows?" Mrs. Rawlings said no. "Well, a sow's peculiar. Times, she'll take, and again she'll not take. It all depends on the moon. Now last moon, she'd not of took...
Wickard became a good farmer, won ten gold medals from the Farm Bureau for coaxing a yield of 100 bushels to the acre from his cornfields. He went in heavily for hogs, got into the ton-litter competition, won another half-dozen medals. In five years he had bought another 100 acres abutting his ancestral 280 and had paid off a $5,000 mortgage. In 1926 he became the second Carroll County farmer to be singled out for the Prairie Farmer's widely recognized distinction of "Master Farmer...