The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-14
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS
Pigs is pigs"

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 1 l was talking to a big cattle raiser who lives in west Alabama about what the COW could do for the state.
 Yes, it's all true.' said he that the COW has saved Wisconsin,, but the hog is going to be the salvation of Alabama" | He was just an everyday farmer; man of good horse sense. Without the advantage of a college education he had ! travelled and read, and made out of him self leader in his section. His speciality was hogs. I didn't know l that the animal which had come down from ancient times with such a bad name could find anyone able to say so much in favor of pork Hogs! why, my friend seemed to know everything about them, from snout to | tail, and my! what hog tale he poured into my willing ears, for I have always been fond of pork.
 Frank Carpenter says: 'It was some time before men learned that food is better when cooked How they found out we do not know. It may have been like the discovery of roast pig by Bo-bo, the, Chinese boy as told by Charles Lamb.
 Perhaps you have laughed over that 1i,t Ta Pigs" by one of our own American hu- morists, but if you want to read classic don't overlook the quaint humor of Eng lands Lamb, who wrote Ion the origin of roast pig
 Here is the story: Bo-bo was the son of the swineherd, Hoti. Through careless ness he set fire to his fathers house, in which some little piggies were kept. The house went up in smoke and fire, and the pigs were roasted. Bo-bo, scared and heart broken, felt one of the household pets to see if any life was in it. The carcass being hot, he burned his fingers, and to cool them, boy-like put them into his mouth. In his first taste of juicy crdckll0SS ne IOTROC ms pain.
 He told Hoti how good roast pig was, and the story tells how father joined with son to burn down house after house to get more roast pig. Arrested they gave the judge bit of roast. The judge straghtaway buys a few pigs and burns his own house. Many others. after get ting whiff and a taste, did likewise The craze for roast pig was starting conflagration all over China. It was only stopped when sage found out that pig could be roasted on an ordinary fire
 Funny, isn't it? The Chinese are so queer, you say, but they are not the only ones who are guilty of doing queer and foolish things. Lambs story sets a na tion's homes in flames over roast pig
 Now what I wish to do Is to fire Ala bama with enthusiasm to get into the hog raising and pork packing game Back to my farmer friend. He said: MT. Barnett our people don't know what the hog can do for them.'
 
 When Mrs. Mathis was in New York, some one asked: Cant you raise hogs thrust at her home people for sleeping over their opportunities she replied: Sure, but they are built for speed" In one sentence she told the story of our neglect.
 I'm glad to chronicle the fact that the razor back is giving way to the better breeds. That a hog has no longer to get his own living in the woods, but is cared for and fed, is one of the best signs I see as I go up and down the state in the growing interest in pork raising.
 I'm heartily in sympathy with the gar- den movement, with the plant something campaign I'm also greatly interested in the "pig clubs for our boys and girls.
 
 Talking to man who has retired from business he told me how he was brought up during the war. Somehow he got hold of a pig and gave it all the attention and 
 on his dog, and how it grew into big hog and furnished meat for the family. He has made thousands of dollars since then. but I believe the memory of his pig is one of his pleasantest memories.
 
 I tell this because the warning comes from Auburn that Alabama is going to be short of meat. tell it because I want our boys who can to begin to realize that it is within their power to help their coun- try in this crisis by joining pig club and raising meat.
 Let the bankers take up the subject in earnest and make it possible for every boy in their community to get a pig and raise it by lending them the money to buy it.
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