Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1917 — THIS IS SOME SWINE STORY [ARTICLE]

THIS IS SOME SWINE STORY

(Henry Ropp of Union township has a sow that is trying to do her part tow’ard solving the high cost of living. A few days ago she gave birth to the remarkable number of twenty pigs, a feat perhaps seldom if ever equaled before in Jasper county; Unfortunately nine of the youngsters died, and there are but eleven left, but this is a goodly number, and with hogs selling at $16.20, per hundred—the price reached in the Indianapolis market Monday—they will bring Henry a nice bunch of dollars when fatted for market.