Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-10-27
The Kansas Hog.

From the repulslve and prescribed
nuisance of antiquity, tolerated but
despised, under the ban of many re.
ligions, descended through the savage
predatory hordes Of old.world forests
and jungles, the hog has become not
only amensble to civilization, but,
under the modifying influence of In.
diana corn and surroundings salubri-
GUS and peaceful, he is in America a
debt-payer, mortgage remover, pro-
moter Of progress, and buttress Of
prosperity. Here is unquestionsbly
the region of highest development.
10 his American form the mouths
Of every nation water for rashers from
his unotuous carcass, and the pinched
and petty savings Of peasants and the
Golfers of princes are alike rifed of
their boarded coins to exchange for
the staples and luxuries he alone
yields. Whether Mammon Is to fur
nish forth marriage feast IN Gotham
or a luckless prospecter be grudging-
ly grub.staked for a last desperate
venture into the frozen Businesses OF
the Yukon, the hog must be early
reckoned with.
There is probably no other territory
of the area as Kansas where the con-
ditions of climate, soil, food aud care
are more congenial to the hogs health
and wholesome development, and he
is nowhere found so developed except
among a high order Of people. High.
class swine are unknown and impos-
sble among low-class people,
Kansas swine, coinage Of Kansas
grain and brain, met in Chicago in
1893 the world. heaters, and beat them.
Uncle Sans agricultural report for
January of this year gives the aver
age value of the Kansas hog as rs
per cent. greater than that Of the
Missouri porker; AZ per cent. above
the Virginia hog; 81 per cent above
his Kentucky relative: 60 per cent
higher than the Texan; 1874 in ad
vance Of the Arkansan; and l39 per
cent. greater than that OF the Florida
hog The same report shows but
eight states with moro hogs than
Kansas, and but four in which their
aggregate value was larger. She has
more hogs than all New England and
fifteen states and territories added
and with value exceeding the total
of those in eighteen sister states.
Where corn and grass most abound
there the hog is most properly evolv.
ed and wakes latest. Kansas is the
corn orchard parked with grasses.
Nowhere else do corn and grass grow
in greater opulence. In such a region,
with such an environment, the hog
and bis colleague, the beef steer, are
twin chief alchemists who transmute
the bulkier products of the soil into
gold and silver equivalents wherewith
to buy better homes, added lands,
luxury, and leisure. In Kansas he
finds the favored zone-his El Dorado.
Here he attains the qualities which
make his flesh a delicacy sought Of
epieures in Occident and Orient, no
less than fit and staple ration for
men Of heroic undertakings, iron nerve
and cool brain, like those who at Ma.
Mia and Santiago fred the unerring
shots that wrenched loose the props
Of throne, revised the worlds map,
and replaced tyrsnny's Aeg with
"Old Glory"
1t is in recognition Of his lmpor-
lance and possibilities as a factor in
in the states advancement, and that
he may be still better understood, sp-
preciated and utilized in enhancing
her wealth and welfare, that the Kan
sas Board Of Agriculture discusses
him. f. D. CoBURN, Secretary.