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farmers who raise swine have come to realize 

 fully that, besides bran, milk or buttermilk, and 

 com, greens are of prime importance as fodder 

 because they abound in the growth-producing 

 food salts. 



CLOVER-BLOSSOM PORK 



Three times a day I go down to the garden 

 and bring up an armful of greens — succulent 

 weeds, com suckers, or anything else not needed 

 by the family — and throw them before our two 

 colored piggies. Sambo and Jumbo. You have 

 heard that "pigs is pigs" and maybe you think 

 that, so far as porkers are concerned, * 'greens is 

 greens." As a matter of fact, pigs differ in 

 matters of taste individually. One year we had 

 a pampered white pig which ostentatiously pre- 

 ferred white clover blossoms to everything else. 

 We used to pick huge bunches of these blossoms 

 for him, our visitors helping. He gave me visions 

 of a new brand of hams and bacon surpassing 

 the best now in the market. ** Clover-blossom 

 Pork Products Company" — how would that do 

 for a firm name? 



Of course, the meat would be really smoked 

 — not painted with creosote. We have, by the 

 way, a new fifty-dollar metal smokehouse with 

 coiled pipes to cool the smoke before it reaches 

 the meat. You ought to have seen how stuck 

 up our pigs were last October when I told them 

 that the metal box was a sanitarium and that 

 they were the first ones to be cured in it. 



