Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-14
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Pigs Is Pigs and Hogs ls Hogs, but
Read This and You VIII Think
Better OF the Family
Rx SARAH d. LOWRIE

Come on, let's tickle the pigsv'
This was generally accomplished in my d
young DAYS by lying fat on the slopng roof
of the pen and leaning over and with q
willow branch flicking the SOW recumbent
in the yard beneath The roof was gen.
orally siippery from moss and there was q
slight danger that you might slide of it
into the pig yard, in which case you were
told you might be eaten by the SOW before
you could wade out Of the muck and climb
the fence to escape.
l supposed after ] had grown up that
should never again enjoy pigs, except so to
speak in the retrospect after they became
pork and we're set before me to cat, when
10 and behold one day during the war all
the old glamour attached to my childish
memory Of them came back with a rush
when ] once more hung over their pens,
only this time / did not tickle them they
tickled me! That is they reused me to a
pitch of interest and enthusiasm that made
the day l visited them n red letter one.
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thiS Was cnairinan OF .ne ,,an;a
VrM W Comnii.tse OF tne fennssiSdhm,dd had
w omun ,nsn nnn ,oahd army, hnu as sun Sa forms
sirls-to live md 70 ,rork On them
An application came from the Sycamore
Farm, at Douglasyille. Pa. for a unit Of
eight girls, and Mrs. John Fritsche, Of
Merton, the owner of the farm, motored me
for the girls and to get a general idea of
the work they would be required to do.
| found that the great industry of the
farm was the breeding OF berkshire pigs,
and in the course of nv tour of inspection
| was introduced to some 200 of them, gen.
orally by name.
l never saw such pigs They were red
they were clean, they we're huge, they had
rosettcs for snouts in the center of their
faces When they were introduced by name
tbnv nd tod Of Hmm
selves and of me. They lived in houses
without smells and disported in fields with
out muck; they ate huge sacks Of breakfast
foods prepared with fond care by lavish at
tendants. Their litters were worth bags Of
gold at birth and more and more as time
There was a champion that lay recum-
bent from too much flesh that had taken
almost every prize she could take for points
OF preeding. Nothlhg that sne pore vas
vulgarizcd into sausage or scrapple; All her
offspring went to breeding others IKE unto
her. she looked at me with her little cute,
clever eyes ana reminded me OF an oiu irish
nurse | once loved and who spoiled me on
the quiet.
THERE were other things to look at on
| the farm: a dairy. a berry garden and
a vegetable garden and pastures and crops.
besides the quarters for the farm unit OF
the land army girls; but I only cared for
the pirs. though I knew the rest were all
they ought To be and that the land army
girls would enjoy themselves and sork
proitably,
Coming back TO town with Mrs. Fritsche,
I discovered. incidentally. that her husband
rants: ana was himself the inventor OF the
amerlcan automat, ana that her turning
iarher nnu pig preeder hau oeen sort Oh
nursing pack on her part 10 country thinss
anu county , WAYS WAYS ron an % ihherl.ed IN,
stihci nahaeu t Gown t;o rom hsr Ioreoears; VINO
nuu utSn ior Ee,letu'ioiIs iuInnrs vi Nhes-
ICr Na'Ie!. ihat Is, sue ulu IL lor rec!e-
atoh' as ah9thcr woman Win country IN
sIinets @ Mnulu Hnru'la OF hunI OF rS.se SET
ters; ohIy IN her case sne made the tarm
pay
SlNCE that experience l. have followed
- hard in the wake of the hog, especially
the Berkshire pig. and l have discovered
other pig farms even nearer home: the Per-
cival Roberts. the De Witt Cuylers, the
Asht0ns. besides those down near Whining
ton belonging to the du Points, notably the
one of Pierre du Pont.
And now to reward this enthusiasm there
is to be q very notable Berkshire pig con-
gress on the 10th. 18th and 18th of this
month in the First Regiment Arrhory,
| Broad and Cnllowhill streets, at which
sixty-four exhibitors will place before the
| public's delighted gaze some of their finest
| animals No one is allowed to evhibit
| more than two animals each, and so the
class is a very high one. I looked down
| the list Of the wonders upon which we may
feast our eyes and such names as Royal
Bell (37) and Ladygoods t3d) met my eyes,
| which two, think. are Mrs. Fritsche's.
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o.,,p 81, MA ~. ,o,o No., x, o,a
| ShE toid me not lohs ago tunny ana
! ~ sort OF nice story OF prize SOW she
sent down to an exhibit in South America.
| The SOW had the artistic sense to litter on
| her way down; flve OF her litter were born
north of the. equator and five south. Not
| long after the event storm swept over
| the deck and dislodged her pen and swept
some of the exhibits overheard. Indeed, the
| man in charge OF her feared that she was
lost. when 10 and behold as the water re-
ceded she was found wcdsed tightly against
the rail with her PACK to the incoming
her litter, of which by some feat of agility
she had managed to save all but two.
was told that this SOW and the whole