The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-17
A GOOD CHANCE TO GET
A FREE RIDE
Hogs of High Degree
Frolic With Chill
dren, Roam Broad
Acres, Dine in State
and Lodge in Model
Apartments

BY JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON.

By JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON.
r IT'S Exalted Hogship. Successors Riva-
n leer. ambled out of the automobile
- and shook his ample flanks. Special
cars and cypress trains are hardly comfort
abe enough for him and other $4,000 bears
Of Piping Brook Farm, near Greenwich,
Conn. where Percy D. Elliott of New York
city maintains so luxurious resort for pigs
that Il is called the Berkshire Country Club.
Successors Rivaleer, lord of the show herd,
winner of blue ribbons nnun}erable and fore
bear Of hogs Of high degree at a cost of $3.50,
had journeyed that day by motor all the way
from Bellair. Nd, to the envrons of Green
wlch. His fine constitution was too valuable
to be entrusted to other means of transit.
He rubbed noses with Fairview Ruler an
other Of his class, grunted amiably to such Of
the other four hundred porcine aristocrats
who were near him on the eighty-three acre
estate and began looking around for his IA
vortts playfellow There came a sudden rush
Of small human legs and arms and in about
I'VE seconds the three-year-old son of the
superintendent Of the place riding tho
new arrival about the fields.
Pig Back Riding de Luxe.
Better than sporting with Amaryllis in
shade" the children of that part of Con-
high born hogs of Piping Brook. There is
nothing more refined nor gentle than Sc
loot swine which have traditions to main
tain. When children mount and ride, ana
even sit on them at dinnertme, they take
Auoh conduct as a matter of course, and
w9ssn the youthful riders fall off the high
bred porker chargers wait patiently for their
young friends to get back again in the sad
die. Some folks might think that such ex-
e-cise would send too many pinafores to the
laundry. but they do not realize that show
hcg cannot afford to make such pig of HIM
self to get his bristles dirty-even though
they be rthe black ones of the Berkshire
breed.
Every man to his fancy, says the old saw,
out mere fancy does not account for the
deep interest which Mr.. Elliott, prominent
cry goods commission merchant, takes in the
rosring of pure bred hogs. To him jowl
OF the right shape is as fascinating as a jade
howl would be to connoisseur of the arts;
and hog with all six points means as much
as me trim ankles of horse show champion
does to the sportsman.
Some of his friends when they see him
Eurr.1ng in his limousine t,ward Piping
Brook. do not quite understand what they are
pleased TO regard as his fad, but then there
are others who realize that his is not the
whim of a fancier. but the work of a serious
minded man. who believes that the cost of
living In this country would be greatly re-
duced II the raising of pure bred animals
were more encouraged
The pure bred hog natures about twice as
fast as the scrub. and therefore needs only
han as much food TO make him At for the
market, while his meat is of better quality
are finer flavor Mr.. Elliott, although the
breeding OF fine pigs is his avocation and
not his vocation, is one OF the leading pro-
motors Of the Berkshire strain in this coun-
IL STA xvffh xaI
nerd. but found for various reasons that IL
wss better 10 confne his energies to one
breed His work at Piping Brook, however
r. en- broad. national lines, for II is his pur
pose 10 interest other men OF means to raise
pure bred stock OF all kinds and to let the
farmers Of the nation have IL for breeding
purposes on as moderate terms as possible.
How MIR. Elliot's Venture Started.
HiS devotion 20 pig culture came out OF
Unforeseen circumstances. Twelve years
nso. shortly before he began II, he might be
considered AZ almost the last man in the
world 20 embark on such venture His
whole time and energy had been given 10 his
business IN tho Wholesale drygoods district
~ lower Broadway. Born in Brooklyn and
trained In the commercial ways of Manhat-
Ia. his attention was drawn 10 agriculture
IN On unforeseen way He had a brother
1dchard A Elliott. a brilliant lawyer Of this
ety. who broke down through overwork and
retired 70 farm. where after q year or so he
cl,d Percy d. Elliott took over the farm
sfsr ths death Of his kinsman, and. instead
~ ceiling II az he planned originally to do,
drcided 20 keep u and carry out certain
ideas 81 his brother with regard 20 the flu
ture Of agriculture.
Dvon then there was a falling Off OF the
profucts ~ the farm ana fields. living costs
had taken that slight ascent which has
brought thom In these days 20 so high
pax and there were indications that food
animals were far from what they should be.
The decrease Of the importations Of bloodcd