The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1896-12-05
GRENADA, MISS sAruRbAY, DECEMBER 5, 1896
A HOG KILLING TIME"
Some Interesting Facts and Good Advice.

Some Interesting Facts and Good Advice.
| 4 CRAYsPoRT, MISS, Dec. 1st, 1896.
4 ESlitor Sentinel For weeks many Of
0er citizens have been anxiously await
lug the coming Of cold snap, in which
ID slaughter their fattening hogs.
Their barns were being rapidly depict
ed d corn, as many Of these hogs had
been fed all they would eat since early
All, and we were growing anxious for
the time to come 10 stop this drain
upon the corn supply.
Monday morning the slaughter began
id earnest; Tuesday there was no let up.
The slaughter continued toward the
close Of this (Tuesday) evening. The
question was asked on the street, how
many hogs were killed in the two days
in our town? Some thought twenty
five, others thirty, when upon actual
count there we're sixty slain in our
small town, and at least fifteen more to
be slaughtered in a short time, making
in oil seventy-tive or thereabouts, and
these were no small fry either, such as
usually grace the barbecue pit on the
4th OF July or for Thanksgiving. I
will give you the weights Of few: W.
J. Parker killed two that weighed over
500 pounds, the largest tipping the
beam at $50 pounds; a colored man liv-
ing ono and half miles out dressed
one weighing 400 pounds; many others
went far up toward the three hundred
mark. The contrast 10 wonderful with |
= few years ago, and shows conclusively |
what can be done in this line. The
people arc alive in this respect, white
and colored all looking for better hogs,
in fact, better stock Of all kinds. |
sold to a colored man quite recently a
year-old Berkshire male for ten dollars
cash. He said he was done with tho
razor back, and to-day delivered to
person a Berkshire SOW at
fair price, and thus it is all over the
country. Quite recently at the Vicks-
burg fair Illinois men purchased Miss
issippi raised hogs and carried them
home for breeders. Conditions are
being reversed, you see. The stock
law and fve-cent cotton has revolution
lied this country and brought about
this great change-and with gold
standard, or silver standard, or no
standard at all, you cannot starve
people that possess so many advantages
of soil and climate and so many facili
ties for stock-raising as we possess.
1t is to you, the press of the State,
we look to keep these advantages pub
|ished and proclaimed to all the world,
that the honest, Industrious home
seeker may be directed to our genial
climate and fortilc soil, away from thc
oleak, frozen regions of the North and
West. Here he can build a home with
ess money and more assurance Of
.eaping handsome reward for his
abor than he can in the drought
stricken, snow-blnding, blizzard-dr-
;troying region of the great North
vest. Slowly but surely the tide will
urn Southward.
Well, Mr.. Editor, we have down .
light winter at last, but happily the
leecy staplc is about all housed. and If d,
,ur granaries are not grooming unier
superabundance, we have enough to
)ull through with, so let US be thank
ul for the good things that We have, :.
md also for things unattaincd. Our ,
ives would be paralyzed were there =,
lothing more to attain. =
Wishing you and yolrs abundant
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