Show tito the now kw ither tn in these daya clays when everything new ven even tho the new woman in being discussed it may not bo be anaias to put inic s d a word about the now new hog says gayo western swineherd WO we ba have bam M seen been in the year just closing pounds ot of pork standing up on its toes worth more in tho the market than pounds of pork put up in oak staves and hickory hoops there is evidently a change of 0 taste coming about and the lard hog seems to have had bad his days the boys who were down on tho the potomac and who marched with sherman to the sea and who thought a slice of raw sow belly on steel armored hardtack a meal fit for the gods of war are being gathered to their fath ers and while the present generation has we trust inherited their patriotism it has evidently missed inheriting their taste by several points the lard hog was a war measure and to his glory be it said he filled and important part in that struggle with the stubbornness characteristic of him whether ho he goes on two legs or four he be held his ground ol of vantage long after his supreme usefulness had departed lie ile never confessed his waning popularity till cotton seed oil entered the lists against him and won over the pastry cooks but he has served hla his country and served it well and in memory we will ever hold him dear the now new hos hog it we may call that new which is old la is the bacon hog on authority of 0 the secretary of agriculture himself fifty years ago we had him in all his glory he bred and fed in the forest fast nesses and in the wilds un utilized by other animals domestic he had sides like cotton cottonwood nood plank with deep saw marks a nose that would have won him a marshalls marchalls Mar rank under bonaparte hams that resembled an exaggerated baseball bat and shoulders according he produced two streaks of lean to one of fat and there was a gamey flavor to his flesh that yet brings the water to tho the mouth of those who have feasted on the delicacy ile he stood ago age well and was as good at tour four years old as at four months in all the gamut of 0 meats nothing was superior to the pork of the acorn cracker and the prairie rooter of our grandmothers days we wont have him back in the new hog they say and the problem now Is how to produce him profitably the commercial instinct is too loo strong within us to abandon the lard hog which produces pounds at nine montas old tor for the bacon he hog that will yield no greater weight six months later provided the bacon hog command a price that will justify it but wo we want the trade of our european neighbors and they want bacon hog the problem that confronts us is can we make the bacon hog at a fair profit it 11 we can the new ho hog will be forthcoming it is not the know how that is lacking but is the incentive we are ready to supply the market with what is wanted provided it pays to do so and all there is to it so far the bacon hog has not climbed far enough ahead of the general market to justify much expenditure of energy in producing in the new hog but the trend of sentiment indicates that he may do so at no distant day |