Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1912 — Hogs Rob a Pear Tree. [ARTICLE]

Hogs Rob a Pear Tree.

Do animals reason? Well, a Lower Creek farmer’s hogs pastaring in ’ a pear orchard apparently do, for*tbey take turns in going to low hanging limbs of the pear trees, grasp with the month a limb containing pears, sit on their haunches and shake it until the pears fall, which the other hogs come and eat —Salem (Mass.) Sunbeam.