The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-26
RAISES PEOIGREED
HOGS IN HOTHOUSE
Woman Makes Fortune and Causes
Missouri Farmers 10 Sit Up and
Take Notice.


Miss Alice Kinney, on the famous
Old Kinney farm, Rivercene, in How
ard county. Mo, raises the finest kind |
of hogs in a dollhouse.
She has never lost A hos from dis |
ease. although cholera RACES on the |
farms round about The Kinney hogs. |
raised under glass, are fine and thrift |
ty. She raises only Poland China reg
istered hogs-she believes this breed |
the best for the farm. And she be- |
lieVeS that hog raising is a money |
maker on the farm, although she be- |
lieves i'll diversified farming too.
The dollhouse hogs have been
grown under glass for SO many years
that they have become an established
institution. The farmers had q lot
! Of fun with Miss Kinney and her farm
manager and partner. Daniel O'Don-
hell. the first year they advertised
| dollhouse hogs for sale.
What dye know about that? 2" they
snickered, LIGHTHOUSE hawgs-what
next: What sort of good dye reck on
a dollhouse hawg is gOin' to do.
They'll curl right up and die when
| cool blast strikes them"
But when they found that dollhouse
hogs not only looked thriftier and
better than the open lot variety, but
throve better they began to sit up and
take notice. They hurried to the
Kinney farm for the semi-annual hog
sales and the H. H. H. variety brings
better prices now in Howard county
than the Open-air hogs
-Four or five years ago Miss Kin
neyS brother started q dollhouse for
vegetable The Kinney family is
large and each has his and her own
: ideas on what may be grown on a
| farm. Fortunately, the Kinney farm
is also large and there is room for all
to test out their ideas. There are 23O
: acres of choice land The Kinney
brothers and sisters good naturedly
jolly each other about the success or
: failure of the different fads but each
E one sticks to the pet theories until
Y they are proved or found wanting.
4 The lighthouses were we'll built and
] the vegetables started. The brother
4 who believed in vegetables grown
G under glass died before he could prove
n his theories The rest Of the family
= took no interest in the lighthouses and
s rOomy and well equipped. They were
: fully 1O0x30, all glass inclosed. Miss
n Kinney looked into the matter and
5. decided that Rivercene was too far
) from large market to make the
s growing of dollhouse vegetables sue
cessful. She was less a gardener than
r she was a stock grower
e About this time a valuable SOW
n "stole her nest" like an old hen an6
% narrowed in field under an old stack
1t turned cold and rainy and the little
re pigs were in danger Of getting chilled
e AS Miss Kinney went out to the field
q to see what could be done with tn,
> misguided old SOW, she glanced in a
e. the big, empty and warm dollhouse.
~ ''Well get that old SOW and he
he litter in the hothouse," she directed
le Its warm and comfortable in there
n and a better place than that wet oil,
e. hay-stack.'
Id SO Madame Hog and her famil
ed moved into their new apartments an
n found them so much to their likin
ne that they settled right down to house
LII keeping and the duties of domesticity
ct 1t proved such success that othe
n sows were brought in there, and til
e. young pigs nestled in the luxury Q
ad the oak leaves that fell from the bi
rs trees outside. They grew so Well an
looked so sleek and put on weight s
sci fast that Miss Kinney resolved to hol
at her next sale in the dollhouse.
DIS The hog buyers had a nice little pr
of vate sort of a combine down aroun
he BOOnvilie and New Franklin Whe
IN. they knew of a little bunch of hogs
as be picked up, they used the telephon
DIS right busily, and the result was thu
lot a uniform price was offered the fal
~ mer-and that was the best he cou]
ne hope for.
ns Miss Kinney is nothing if not pra,
teal. She conferred with her ia r,
he partner, Mr.. O'DonneI Next dav AZ
I'VE nouncementS went forth inviting y
ed. farmers and buyers TO drop in ar p i,
put greene for a sale of fOthOuSe hoes
old Everybody came. They wanted
know what an II. HH was. Nhe
al they saw bunch of fine, silky your
me hogs assembled in the aisles Of II
ord roo1nlest dollhouse, they did some -
she staring. Incidentally tbav did 20
rite buying. They Went home .na -
NE. some talking And wboo -
L | sale came in six months at Rivercel
ma the whole country f1ocked in to 8
IT, the famous Hot House Hogs.
iSs' Ihere was no danger of too rnu,
tor 'c'mpetltion. Not many farmers ha