Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1914 — Mastodon Hog Weighs 1,000 Pounds on the Hoof [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Mastodon Hog Weighs 1,000 Pounds on the Hoof

BALTIMORE, MD.—One hog, 1,000 pounds on the hoof. Hi F. Martin of Hampstead, in the fifteenth district of Baltimore county, sold an animal of this weight, says the Sun, to H. F. Sharrer, a butcher of Hempstead. It

was five years old. Facially and by several other characteristics, it looked like the verisimilitude of the swine tribe, but it had the bulk of a horse —~of a large horse. Seeing it move across the field on a moonless night gave one the apprehension that the banshees or fairies were moving a haystack, Only now that the western winds have come along does Farmer Martin realize the invaluable boon he lost when he parted with the colossus

puerco. Staked on the windward side of the Martin homestead, not a ripple of air could reach the unrepaired roof; no whining, convulsive sobs could be wrung from the free and easy weatherboarding. It might,have been that C. P., hog, pig, swine—call it what you will, for . there doesn’t seem to be any Latin or Dacian designation adequate to embrace the animal's massivity and projection into the circumambient atmosphere —us before said, perhaps it was because the animal’s appetite was built along the lines of its displacement or because of the luring offer of nine cents a pound “dressed," that Mr. Martin sold Ik—at any rate, Mr. Sharrer got The carcass dressed down to 798 pounds net, for which Mr. Martin rw paired the monetary equivalent of trim