The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-10
THE PIG MADE FUNNY.
F. ID. Coburn Tells About 'sJest
Hogs7 Last Evening.
POETRF and LITgRLTURE DRAWN on



Entertaining or Talks M The m-
proved stock breeders
IL IS almost impossible to inject fun
into the subject of hogs. but F. D. Coburn
did it at the meeting of the Improved
Stock Breeders association last evening,
Mr Cobun made the hog hiiariously
funny His paper was called "I lest Hogs"
Every body was expecting something good
when he arose to read it and they got it,
@At 1918 per hundred pounds the hog is
a prosaic Dlebeian,s said Mr. Coburn,
ssa quite disrepuIable fellow Of lndiHer-
emit breeding. de based morals, and Of un-
clean habits; whose relationship we deny
and to whom many of us often do not
speak when we meet him lib the road or
at the station.
SAT 1928 per hundred, however, this is
all reversed He is entitled to be called
honorable and is an interesting gentle
man and 70 all Difference which most of
us make haste TIP show distinguished
relative of large financial consequence.
ellie is given the right-o f-way by pedes-
trians, vehicles and railway trains and 1t
is with our cheerful consent that be
comes about as near representing and
and possessing the fat Of the land as any
body we know.
~Lnder these circumstances he soon
ceases I'd associate with country people,
the friends ana benefactors of his youth,
ana becomes plutofta4 carry AaAiiA8
under the baneful influence OF such
throat cutters as the Swifts and the Ar
mours. only, as we might expect, to get
If in the neck and eventually to be bled
to death.
Lorenzo Dow once said. The average
western Aat-lvl lAis Aal~ carry anu late,
ol-en 49PtAElhs I-ti47e4A Of hFeued resi-
for whats To feed hogs for whats To
get money with which to buy more land
for wAats Io raise more corn-for
whatt 4o feed more hogs for whatf
Ap lay more ia44s ana WAY docs Ar
raise more corn TO feed more hogs to
buy more land, to raise more corn to
feed more hogs And IN this circle he
moves until the AIM htJ stops his hog-
gl71 pf9eee4ins7
ne advances IN the swine industry
within the past third Of century have
Deen WoA4erlll, pat perhaps not greater
imam tne advances in ats literature. lit
mas NOT been more than third Of cen
fury since 3 our speakers didh hesitate
70 Qescrl9e the hog as a beautiful insect
q lAe genus houlo' tlaI gives milk and
hog tat and back 9one. Her plumage is
made Of bristlesi she roams from flower
tl n1WeEs gathering sausage Dy the way
SIDE
TT IS tashlonfbie ln some circles to
llaicu le ana 4en0unee the hog to insist
lnal ne IS the dire author of lepr0sy,
consuu ptlon- sclot uIas cancer and the
most 4lag listing diseases THAT atdict hui
manly.
PAS ls tne teacalng of prejudice not
ri SCIENCE Inc n9g outllves AA hostile
ly and laughs 50 TO speak, at the i'll sue
cess % ms sian GERS The hog is
true e1snopolte--a citizen of the world
he increases and multIplles and interests
every p-1l ol the la9llable globe. lie does
n1L stana re Algh repute tor hls manners,
Dut ne r. most accommodating, thriving
WIN equal content ln the sty of the rich
9--I -He A+t~ll9- me lhligent-
re Is 1ne product 81 natures most
economic thought There Is no part that
canu9t e utlll1ee HIS flesh, fat bris-
lea, Aalr- noOI ana bones are all turned
~ account
"Due enthusiastic and eloquent writer
naa mace tne claim that the pig IS
much better emblem of our nationality
than the eagle, and that though nothing
of beauty. in the strict artistic sense. he
Is far more handsome than the eagle,
ana When opporlnity offers, is far more
clearly and dainty i'll his personal
habits rs not otnAmental, he IS GER
tainly useful. while the eagle is neither
useful nor ornamental
me Pig IS quiet and in0ffensive
a greater extent the peaceful virtues for
which cur nation is 50 conspicuous, than
does the rowing. riratical eagle.
"Aoss marvellous of AN advances in
connection with tle swine has been the
ducts. Is tho tiva ,sa,-s go - 80
we sold abroad hoes and thei7 nr977,ofs
an annual averages Of 1888 worth ~
the equivalent 92l54 hogs ar S16e5 ner
"a single wear Z. O4 8. sos hons f-r @704 $50
OB5. 81 about SASS Der head.
~In my twenty seven Years residence
III this state and Ill Of chat time sbarflv