WORLD’S BIGGEST PIG.
EIGHT FEET THREE INCHES LONG.
COSTS £2 A DAY TO FEED.
Billy, the world’s biggest pig, is on view at an agricultural show in Johannesburg and is insured for £5OOO. It is Bft 3in long, 6ft 9in in girth, and weighs just over half a ton. The pig has; travelled 35,000 miles, and is just back from a. visit, to Australia. It has a voracious appetite, its daily menu consisting of four eases of apples, eight or nine buckets of milk, two bushels of bran, 16 or 18 cabbages, and a few odds and ends.
Billy, who has won prizes innumerable, has the distinction of having a valet specially appointed to keep him properly ( groome.d, and when he is on his travels has specially reserved accommodation on train and boat. This prince of porcines travels as a prince. His food alone costs over £2 a day.
Billy’s proud owner is Mr J. Gardiner, who has decided to send him to the British Museum after his death. The maihmoth pig is only 28 months old at present, and a prosperous career still lies before it.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5190, 12 October 1927, Page 2
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187WORLD’S BIGGEST PIG. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5190, 12 October 1927, Page 2
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