The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-12
coBURN ON THE PIG
Tells Some Funny and Interesting
Thinqs About the Porker.

Tells Some Funny and Interesting
Things About the Porker.
Mr.. Coburn began his remarks by tell
ing the old saying that 'an work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy and gave a
little variation to this principle when he
said 'all beef and no pork makes an
unbalanced ration for the people of Amer
Tia, for without both they cannot do all
that is expected of them. Kansas he
said, 'is prepared to supply the world
with any and all kinds of meat and as
juicy beef and pork as anyone would wish
TO eat.
People seem to regard the hog as
low animal said the speaker. But he
ranks higher in some things than his two
footed friends. For if given an opportuni-
ty, he is clean, unselfish and thoroughly
able TO take care Of himself If left to his
own resources
II was the speakers opinion that the
pig is a patented machine, fully capable
of taking care of all the raw material
that could be placed before it. 1t was
self-oiled and never gave out and was as
reliable as any machine now to be found
that has been made by man. Corn said
he, can be thrown into a hog If it is
well bred, and it is a good investment.
This patented pig can take ten bushels
of corn and confine il in less space than
one bushel would take, and at the same
time IS good, sound cash. Take a good
porker ard fill him with corn, and as it
takes only seven pounds to make one
pound of fat. that pound of fat is worth
many times more in the European mar
kets than seven pounds of corn. Mr..
Porker is condenser. Ship him to Eng
land and the freight on him would be
a great deal less than the freight on the
corn IT took to fatten him, and he would
be worth more money to boot.
This patent pig is the manufacturer OF
many articles. Re makes brushes, grease,
cushions, fertilizer, rattles, side meat,
sausage, souse. soap, soup, and satisfac
ton. He is a beauty and q joy forever.
He raises the mortgage, sends the kids
to school, buys the piano and other furni
ture, builds the house, plants the orchard
and keeps il clean, and, if given a chance,
will cultivate it free of charge; and when
ever he is not useful he is ready TO go
away back and sit down.
The pig is at home everywhere-in the
palaces Of the rich, and Of lords and prin-
ces, or in the novels of the poorest. He
travels in his own private car, made ac-
cording to other peoples ideas. however,
camps with the soldiers on the battle
field under every flag, and sails with the
sailor on all the seas, and is the great
standby Of ell, rich and poor alike.
A pig at s2.75 per hundred pounds is
rated as unclean in his habits good for
nothing, and no one will speak to him
as he passes down the road or even turn
out and give him half; in fact, he is an
outcast from society. But take a porker
worth seven dollars a hundred and he IS
looked up to by the best people in the
land; he IS a man worthy of the greatest
cultivation and one to be respected. He
is one Of the highest station, he has the
right Of way over all persons he may
meet in the road, or by vehicles, and is
given the road by all railway trains.
Some people denounce the hog. They
say he is the cause of leprosy and other
diseases man is heir to. The Babylonians
cursed the swine herder and the Macca- |
bees refused to eat the meat of hog, but
MT. Porker does not mind this. He
grunts contentedly if he is well fed, and |
will make no bows to anyone.
Adult pignood is omnivourous and self |
reliant He does his own work thereby |
depending on no other member of the |
family, and the good this example sets is |
that he wakes fat by his own good deeds. |
If YOU want your girls TO have rosy
cheeks and be happy, and your boys TO |
get jobs and hold them, feed them bacon, |
greese and famfat three times a day"
Mr.. Coturn thinks that the pig instead |
of the eagle, should be the emblem of /
America For said he: THE pig is n |
quiet, inoffensive Christian sort If ami !
NAL, while the eagle is rapacious and the |
tyrant Of all his tribe. The pig is q thrifty |
animal and stays at home and minds his /
own business and only takes care of him |
self and adds fat and money, and thus !
far better represents the industry and 1
thrift of the American people than the |
eagle, as tho bird is always on the wing. /
fighting with MS own people and adds /
neither flesh nor feathers"
Mr.. Couurn then gave little talk on |
the feeding Of pigs and he said that /
was one animal that did not kick when |
the dishes were set before him; and above |
All else he had a right to kick, fer he |
was fed on corn, corn soup. cornmeal, and |
corn three times a day. The only variety |
he received IN his food was the dish
water" This" said the speaker" lis
a fluid mixed with greese dirt, tomatoes.
preserves, bread, pie crusts, biscuits.
and exiled dish rags. There was not
enough Cf one thing. but a great mix
ture Of dozen and was a sort of relish
TO Mr. Pig"
The speaker then told a number of
stories of the razor back hog One OF
the famous writer's of the south furnished
him with plenty of descriptive matter
Of the southern razorback, and according
to that individual, TIE Texas razorback