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Show The following is from the weekly news letter issued by the departmen of Agriculture. "A southern so v had eight pigs; anti could onl nouri-h seven of them at : time. Rather than let the odd pir st-irve it was given to a little girl, wh raised it by hand. She joined the Deca tur County PigCiub as a ham and baco-memjer, baco-memjer, and kjptel'we record of th eed given and weights ot her pig, whi eh was not a pure br.'.l. When the pij' was 10 months old, it was killed accord ing to the ins ructions sent hr. L weighed 2i) nounds net when dresse. as meat and vie! ld also a 50-pound cai of lard. The pig cost less than 5 bush els of corn to produce, as it as raisei: n kitchen waste in ad lilion to the corn The oUv r seven pigs raised by tin mother and left to rustle with h 'r were ki led.itth- same time and averaged only 87 pounds net when dress. -t a-meat. a-meat. The instance shows ho w libeiatc allv the pig will rep iv prou.r eve nn,. feed by gaining rapidly in weight. |