Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — AND NOW TREY ARE 11 TO 12c [ARTICLE]

AND NOW TREY ARE 11 TO 12c

Just twenty-four years ago, February 4, 1893, the writer penned this item in the Remington Press: "Pigs are pigs; that is to say, they are way up in *G’. If you are in moderate circumstances you can look at a small one and wish you had money enough to buy it.

If you are well to do you may possibly be able to buy a mediumsized one. If ’ you have a large hank account you can buy one full grown. at 7c per pound.” But now 7 cents a pound for hogs is not to be thought of, and a farmer would almost imagine he was giving them away at that price. But it was a mighty high price in those days and the farmer who had a big bunch to sell was considered onq of the nabobs of the neighborhood.