Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1916 — Just An Illustration of How Pork Makes Mosey. [ARTICLE]

Just An Illustration of How Pork Makes Mosey.

Sidney Maxwell, a farmer of Springboro, reports an interesting record of profit acquired from a pig which he bought two years ago. Mr. Maxwell traded a $1.25 hound pup for a bacon sow—pig. In two years the sow had produced $642.50 worth of hogs and recently Maxwell sold the sow for $65, making a total increase of $707.50 in two years from the animal. ' _ Mr. Maxwell is a brother of O. Maxwell, of this city, and some few years ago Was town marshal at Francesville.