Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1914 — Improved on Old Superstition. [ARTICLE]

Improved on Old Superstition.

The first time pigs cross your threshold make them jump over your pants’ belt, or your wife's garter, or the maid’s apron; then they will come home regularly. A plan now In use among up-to-date American farmers is to keep the pigs in regular pens and feed them twice a day. It is regarded as a scheme more popular with the wife and the maid. The other way is recorded as being a German one. ;