Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24

any other animal. All he asks is to be
born. That is enough for this non
ruminant quadruped, who ear make
his living in the earth, the roadside
ditch or the forest, and who, out OF "A
supply OF grass, roots, or mast can
furnish ham and bacon to the kings
taste and the poor mans maintenance.
The hali-Wild razorback, gives abund>
ant food to tie mountaineer over
whose forest he ranges. The cropped
II slit ear is the only evidence OF
human care or human ownership. He
lives the life OF Il wild beast, and in the
autumn he dies the death OF a wild
beast while his flesh, made rich with
the Juice OF acrons, beechnuts, and
other sweet masts, nourishes Il MAJ
whose only exercise OF ownership il
slaughter. The hog that can make his
own living. run like Il deer and drink
out OF a jug, has done more Tor the
pioneer and the backWoodsman than
any other animal.
Take this semi-wild beast away
from his wild h%aunts, give him food
and care, and he will double his gifts.
Add IA hundred generations OF careful
selection, until his form is 50 changed
that it is beyond recognition, and again
the product will be doubled. The
spirit of swine is not changed by
civilization or good breeding such rs
it was on that day when the herd ran
down a steep place and was drowned in
the sea- such it is today. \ fixed de
termination to have It's own way domi-
mated the creature then, and IA pig
headed desire to be the greatest food
producing machine in the world is its
passion now. That the hog has
succeeded in this is beyond question
Tor no other food animal can increase
its W weight one hundred and fifty
fold in the first eeht months OF its life.
All oyer the world there is Il growing
fondness for swine flesh, and the ever
increasing supply doesn't outrun the
demand. Since the dispersion OF
The tribes OF, Israel there has beer no
persistent effort to depopuIarizc this
food maker. Ply has more
)ften been the food OF the poor than OF
the rich but now rich and poor alike do
it honor. Old Ben Johnson said:
'Now pig is meat, and a meat that
i uourishing and may be desired, and
consequently eaten it may 10y eaten;
yea, very exceedingly well eaten
Hundreds have praised the rasIer oil
ham, and thousands the Hitch OF bacon:
1t took the stroke Of but one pen Ia
make roast pic classical.
The pig OF today is So unlike his dis
tant progcntor that he would not be
recognized ii by amy chance he were
recognized, it would be only with Il
grunt Of scorn lor his unNieldy shape
and his uneuterprising spirit. Gone
are the fleet legs, great head, bulky
snout, terrible jlWe, Warlikc tusks.
pen nostrils, tapping ears, gaunt
hanks and racing sides and with these
nave gone everything that told al
strength, freedom and wild life. In
their place has come Il cuboidal mass.
twice a. loag as ii is broad or high, with
Il place in front for mouth and eyes,
and Il foolish looking leg from under
each corner. \ mighty fall from
"fredom's lofty heights, but a wonder
fully improved machine. The modern
hog is 10 his p~roeentor is the man with
the steam hammel-intinitely more
useful, though not SO free.
1t is net easy to overcstimate the
value Of swine to the general farmer:
but to the factory farmer they are
i Indispensable. ssfhey furnish Il profit
able market Tor much that could not be
sold, and they turn this waste material
into a surprising lot OF money in a
maryclouslv short time. \ pig should
reach his market before he is nine
months old. From the time he is new
born until he is 25O days old, he should
gain at least II pound Il day, which
means five cents, i'll ordinary times.
Daring this time lac has eaten, oi
things which might possibly have been
sold, perhaps five dollars worth. Vt
go days, with Il gain Of one pound Il
day, he l. worth, II year with another