Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-12-22
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Story of Pig County Club Champion


When / learned of the Boys and
Girls club. Il decided i would get a
couple of pigs. so / made 3 trade with
father 70 let me have them and / rak-
ed hay TO pay for them Well. i was
70 have my pick out of %, all out IN
the yard and pigs that are not petted
are not very tame But Murray and
i struck out TO catch them You
know Murray Is always my right hand
man when / have any hard job 10 do
and we soon had them caught.
We had a small chicken yard 70 put
them IN. but IL didn't hold them as
long IS we We're catching them Well.
we repaired the yard and caught
them again This time they decided
TO stay One had short nose, so
named him Shortnose, the other one
had long nose 50 / named him Long
nose. ShortnoSe weighed 27 pounds
and Longrose weighed 20 pounds.
Piggie did not ike the idea of be-
ing put IN a bran sack and hung up
on q pair of cream scales every week.
so they did not tame very fast
The first month they averaged 70
gain five pounds n week, and the last
OF the month ShortnoSe weighed Al
pounds, and LongroSe weighed 40
pounds The last OF the next month
they weighed about as much as i do.
ShOrtnose weighed IS pounds and
Longnose had caught MP with him
Now they could give me a pretty
good wrestle when / caught them
One time when went TO weigh
them il had been raining and when
caught hold Of ShOrtnoSe'S hind leg,
ne yanked me and ! went headlong IN
70 the mud So / thought / would
r-a.~~a Er.=4r--es-- haf~. ~h-r-
my right hand man
Well. piggies kept on eating and
growing as you know how pigs viii
grow II they get enough 10 eat and a
dry place 70 sleep and soon they were
so large / had 10 weigh them II .
crate on some platform scales
Sometimes they would root out un-
der the fence and come Up TO the
house as II they were looking for me;
when they would find me they would
run their noses on my feet. When
wanted them 70 90 back TO the pen
would get pail of milk or some corn
and they would follow me back
At last the great day came, the
Boys and Girls fair, and believe me,
Murray and / were up and got piggies
into a crate and into Stanley's truck,
by the time ne was up
ShortzoSe weighed 121 pounds. and
Longnose weighed 124 pounds. We
had breakfast and by that time Stan
ley was ready and we were soon land
ed on the fair grounds with piggies,
but no one was there 70 tell me what
20 do with them But we supposed
they would be left down to the barn,
where they had the pigs at the big
fair But when Mr. Bacon came he
told me he wanted them at the dog
house ITseemed TO me funny place
for pigs in a dog pen, and / thought
Mr. Bacon did not know very much
about pigs, or else he thought they
must be pet pigs, but struck out and
some other boys with me and as pig
gies were pretty good pets we soon
got them UP to the dog house and
with the help OF Bruce and Mr.. Ba-
con we got them into a couple of
pens, and they filed them full, too.
Well, with piggies landed / struck
out with the rest of the boys and girls
TO have a good time, which we all
seemed TO have and / did not let pigs
worry me any more until II was time
TO get them home, when Stanley came
down TO get Murray and and the pigs
Piggies have been growing all the
time since and now Shortnose weighs
lib pounds, and Longnose weighs 80
pOuAAUS AOu see the largest LILLE
pig does not always grow to be the
largest big pig.
/ have sold piggies to papa for
1926, making me q net profit of Sill
10, after paying for pigs and food and
now / hope / viii soon have some on
my plate TO eat
tSigned) Kenneth h Stevens.
West Glover, VT.
Grade 6, age IL years