Sugar House Bulletin | 1943-03-19 | Page 1 | How Hogs Figure Things out Really is Shocking

I How Hogs Figure Things Out Really Is Shocking EARLHAM, IOWA. Farmer Jim Brown thinks he may have to call in a psychologist to help him outwit the hogs on his farm. Brown installed an electrically charged fence to keep the hogs from wandering. But the hogs didn't stay "conditioned" to the intermittent electric charges. They found their way to the transformer and listened to it click when the electricity went on. As soon as the electricity was off as many hogs as possible would crowd under the fence until the electricity elec-tricity started up again. Brown could fool the hogs by changing the system slightly, but it might give the hogs a nervous breakdown, and that might not make good ham.