The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-12-23
PURE BRED HOG
IS CLASSED WITH
MODERN WONDERS
Mrs. r. A. Lyle, Only Woman to
Show Pig at National Swine
Show, Tells of Develop
ment High >Classers
SHOWS PROGRESS MADE
OVER OLD "RAZORBACKS'
Forsakes Crochet Hook for Study OF
Fine Hog Business, Ambition
to Show Grand Champion
at Main Event

TO the average person hog is a
hog In fact hog is, to them, an
animal useful in the drinking Of
sops and garbage and to furnish
roasts and chops for the table.
Otherwise his highness, the hog
gets little general consideration.
To Mrs R. A. Lyle Of Chickasha,
a hog is something more than a hog.
TO her hog is something loveable,
furnishing possibility Of the skilled
handler in developing, piece o.
Twentieth century mechanism, rank.
ing side by side with the automobile,
the airplane, the wireless telegraphy
as indicative Of American progress.
people often ask the question,
What would our grandfathes think
il they could come back and see the
modern machinery, the big locomo-
tives, the flying machine and the
wonders of the world today?" said
Mrs. Lyle. 81 say, what would our
grandfathers think if they could
come back and see the modern hog
and compare him with the thin
blooded, long nosed swine Of long
ago, who could drink milk from the
BOTTOM of a two-gallon jug and reach
the second or ulird row of corn
through rail fence. TO my mind
the modern pure-bred hog is just as
much of revelation just as won
derful as the most intricate bit OF
machinery the world has yet pro
cured. I love a hog.
She Should Know.
Mrs. Lyle's knowledge of the hog
should be extensive, for several
years she laid aside her embroidery
hook, and forsook the tea room of
society for the hog lot Since then
she has been in every sense Of the
word the partner of her husband
Bob" Lyle, one of the widest known
hog. men in the southwest. Mrs
Bob as she is known wherever the
breeders Of fine hogs congregate, is
no longer one OF the unknown wives
of wellrknown hog men, but is recog-
nized by breeders as being tho
roughly versed in the hog business
and tie judges at the various shows
have learned to respect her judg.
ment of an animal.
Mrs. Bob" has the distinction of
being the only woman who ever
showed a hog al the National Swine
Show. at Des Moines, where only
winners of various state or Circuit
shows are exhibited. Last October
Mrs. Lyle created sensation in the
hog world by displaying her gilt,
Lady Orin Sensation at the National,
and though she did not take a rib
bon, she served notice on the Off
oials that she was coming back
again.
"A good loser at a show is sup
posed to maet the verdict of the of
ficials with a SMILE" said Mrs
Lyle but | am afraid that | pulled
a rather sickly grin as I drove my
pig cut of that show ring. l an
going back and l am going to keep al
it until some pig I show at tn
National, trots out of that ring wit
the grand champions ribbon"
Not Always Pure-Breds.
The time was when the Lyle
were not interested, financially, il
the raising of pure-bred hogs. The
formerly dealt in stock hogs, bough
on the open market and fattened
While in that end. Of the business
they at one time shipped full trail
load of hogs to market on one occas
ion, being one of the largest, if no
the largest single shipment of hog
on record.
In this work Mrs Lyle helped
She fed hogs. drove a team, wake
and drove thousands of hogs to tn
loading point in Chickasha and
short made a hand" but she ha
graduated from such toll now, an
there are those among the "bie
hogmen of the nation who hint Thu
Mrs. Bob" forms the brains of tn