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...hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany's Hitler. Turkey's Kemal Pasha, Poland's Pilsudski. A sow named Cleopatra was tried for high treason because she had littered two more pigs than the President had allotted her. President Roosevelt made a speech but, according to Gridiron rules, "reporters are never present." Neither are ladies-in fact, though not in theory. Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was only member...
...years my business was raising and selling pure-bred Duroc Jersey hogs. I raised hogs that had so much sex appeal I sold 'em as high as $500 apiece. . . . It's not the young sow with her sex appeal that produces a litter of ten or twelve pigs. It's the old sow that's lost her sex appeal and is reckless. . . . When an old sow has produced ten or twelve pigs, in two or three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they...
...boar, under the invigorating influence of a comely sow who makes eyes at him from the next pen, wins the blue ribbon. Wayne, Abel's son, takes revenge on a loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their...
...Detroit the Colonial Department Store advised that it would exchange clothing for farm produce: a dress, bag, hat, shoes, for 3 bbl. of salted Saginaw Bay herring; three boys' suits, three pr. shoes, one dress for a 500 Ib. sow; assorted merchandise for 50 crates of eggs or 180 Ib. of honey...
...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...