A backfields farmer was met in a field one day by a modern agriculturist. When asked what he was doing, the farmer said he was driving his pigs down to the woods where they could eat acorns and fatten up for market. "Why, that's not the thing to do," Informed the agriculturist. "The modern way is to build a pen in a yard and carry the ac >rns to them. It'll •ave lots of time." The older man looked at the other tr a moment and then in utter disgust id: "Why, what's time to a pig?" i
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 302, 22 December 1939, Page 2
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