Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1917 — PIG’S EYES ARE SEWED SHUT [ARTICLE]

PIG’S EYES ARE SEWED SHUT

Farmer Blinded Animals So . They Could Not See to Eat Chickens. Lambertville, N. J. —Because his family for generations had followed the practice, Joseph Pleasant Valley farmer, told Magistrate C. (X Johns he saw no wrong in sewing up the eyes of the hogs on his farm to prevent the porkers from eating bis chifckens. The farmer was ar* rested on charges preferred by Wallace P. Thornton, an S. P. C. A. officer. According to the story the police say Leigh told in court, the pigs on his farm have a special liking for young chickens. He said his father bad taught him the method of stitching up the eyelids of the pigs to prevent them from seeing the chickens, the practice apparently noit interfering with the fattening of the porkers. As they did less wandering in their blindness, the hogs seemed to fatten frster. Leigh was fined S2O