The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
RAISIN FED PIGS.
American Porkers Live High i'll These
Modern Times.

According TO Farm and Family, pigs
fed on mixture of California raisins
and selected grains are thrifty
There was time when nobody had
much respect for any quality Of the
hog save his supposedly indestructible
digestive apparatus. He was expected
to subsiSt upon what he could root up
in the woods until lie should reach
full-fedged hoghood and present to the
owner a sufficiently expansive exterior
to make it obviously profitable to fat
ten him by putting him in a pen and
dumping corn into the muddy inclos-
urc That was when hogs were worth ,
or 1 cents a pound, and when corn,
worth perhaps p cents a bushel in
Kentucky, sometimes was burned as q
substitute for stovcwood in states west
of the Mississippi, where ground corn
WAS better than transportation facili-
| ties and where coal was not a local
product.
Nowadays scientific farmers feed
their pigs as scientifically as their chill
drcn should be fed to get the best re-
suits in the form OF '.build and gen
eral health.
A concrete bath for a pen Of pigs
/ a
sanitary mud hole, is not uncommon
| 4 Kentucky boy who won Il prize fol
| producing the most buxom pig admit
! ted. or boasted, that he had bathcd tho
| animal every dav He added, no doubt
a gentle and soothing massage after
each bath. thus inducing slumber anf
pleasing swinish dreams of gorping 81
deeeiving that the SOW fattened uper
them while she slept.
The hog once led a humble life ant
n hard one, and was popularity he
llicved to be Fundamentally and quite
irrcdeemably filthy. Nowadays, whert
the production of pork really is profit
able the difference between the lot 0
the hog and the comfortable condition
promised to curlylocks to beguilc he
is that curlylocks was expected TO sey
a fine seam.
The hog is butchered in the prim
of life, but that whom the gods love di
young was proverb in the time o
Pericles. Who, that loves the sensuou
| life, wouldn t be butchered before tn
approach of age If assured of an ei
: fortress, sanitary, hvgicnic life of Sc
entifc banqueting sans headaches, an
! other aches?
he fa2OfDack, winch cOulu OttfH
!, the rabbit and was able to take on til
+ run six-inch crack between the raj
: of worm fence, two feet from til
ground, is . lean Cassius of the agr
! cultural past. He could whip dc
$ when cornercd. Hc coutu get INTO an
q ont of any field that offered forage II
! shared with the wild turkey the Dol
y piratical pleasure Of depredating
t sight of the farmer, but out of reat
4 and out Of range, but he never weight
$50 pounds when he was ten months o
n and brought his owner $25.
e Sillten purses still are not made
@ SOW s ears, but leather ones are fillt
y by big profits. So delieately nurture
D is the twentieth century pig that ]
le surprise is occasioncd by the news til
re he is being fed upon raisins. Abo
y the only thing the farmer could not 2
s, ford to feed the modernizcd quic
ID growing pig, which swells visibly Ii
G. a balloon, would be pork produc
BIS which hardly any one really can alto
Il who does not own a block of Standa
n Oil stock, gold mine or q piegery.
Louisville Courier Journal.