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...farmer of good character and proven hog-raising ability the Association will furnish as many pure-bred sows as he can accommodate. From each of the first two litters of each sow, two pigs must be returned to the Association when they have grown to 200 Ib. or more. The farmer then becomes half owner of the sow. With eight piglets saved from each litter, he should have a 12½-pig-per-sow return on his investment of care and feed...
...tried raising pigeons and guinea pigs, failed to make a living. Then he met H. B. Sutter, a fruit grower, who suggested raising white mice for scientific experiments. Two years ago they bought 20 mice, paired them. Every three to six weeks a white mouse produces a litter of eight to twelve white mouselets, who within three months are themselves producing litters of eight to twelve white mouselets. Last week the Wilson-Sutter mousery consisted of some 35,000 white mice, all fertile. Mouserymen Wilson & Sutter were shipping some 3,000 per week, at 4? per mouse, to jobbers...
...wise King Solomon, ensconced in his hive of wives, says solomonly. When he hears that Balkis, Queen of Sheba. is coming to study his incomparable wisdom, he looks forward to the first lesson with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel-litter with her heels, impatient to arrive. The purpose of her pilgrimage is both political and personal. In the land of Sheba, dynastic laws require that rulership repose exclusively in the hands of virgins. Hitherto the ruling virgins had propagated their royal race by divine miracle-a newborn babe would...
Other animals have other miseries: Hella, the lioness, whose second prison-born, litter is taken from her when the cubs reach circus age; Mino, the little red fox, who periodically runs, chasing insanity, in narrowing circles around his cement cage. But there are human sufferers as well. A young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little...
...permission to occupy daily, between 10 a. m. and sunset, a 6-ft. strip of the streets bordering and enclosing Washington Square Park. They promised to keep 10 ft. away from street intersections and entrances to the park, neither to hawk nor solicit passersby, to make no litter, to pick up their campstools and easels and go home at nightfall. Foreseeing one obvious objection of officialdom the committee added in its petition that the moppets of Washington Square would be exposed to no nudes, no political propaganda...