Word: boar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forests, backbone of Sweden's economy, now produce fuel, fabrics, food and fodder. Mass expeditions into the countryside have harvested tons of wild roots, berries and herbs. Nettle soup has been found to be tasty. Not so tasty is boar flesh (imported from Hungary) and "Norrlands biff" (socalled "beef of the north," which is about 75% wood pulp). Cigarets are vague combinations of Turkish tobacco and Swedish hay. The traditional smörgasbord has virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good...
...almost as amazed as hog expert Darlington would have been, to see a sow being serviced by a boar, while her young nursed. One of the most fascinating aspects of nature is its variations from the norm. If animals and human beings always acted and reacted according to known formulae, there would be little interest in either, writers would have nothing to write about, and I think the world would be considerably duller...
...have no way of knowing whether boar and/or piglets actually attained their very different but biologically related objectives. I know only that with my own eyes I saw the astonishing conjunction of effort, while the sow accepted it-passive, and, apparently, pensive...
...specialize in Hampshire hogs and raise better than 200 annually and I know for a fact that a sow will take a boar when suckling pigs. I have seven sows in my orchard with my boar hog. There are also 52 four-week-old pigs with the sows and today I saw the boar service three sows and in a short time their pigs were nursing. All the sows in that field have been bred and all of them have suckling pigs...
...read your enjoyable review of Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings [TIME, March 23]. And ... I wish to state that Miss Rawlings clearly does not know her hogs. . . . She states on p. 263 that a sow was suckling pigs and at the same time being serviced by a boar. A sow will refuse to take a boar until her previous litter are weaned. However in three days after the pigs are weaned she is willing to take. In this respect hogs are smarter than men and women as they thereby gain strength to support adequately the new litter. I have raised...