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Clarence anticipates some difficulties in abandoning Clara's habits. Said he last week: "I like dresses better than overalls. And I'd rather mind the young ones than plant corn...
Investigators went. They checked invoices and freight bills to find out how many pigs Middlesex had shipped in former years. They found that Middlesex consumed very little of that staple hog-food, corn; that only 105 farmers claimed to have raised these 100,000 pigs a year; that the piggeries, situated on back roads, were mostly five or six acres in extent, few over 20 acres. But they also found that on each of those farms were littered anywhere from a few hundred to 6,000 or more pigs a year; that they were nourished on the succulent garbage...
...Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago corn speculator: a world's record for tuna fish; by catching a 956-pounder, off Liverpool, N. S. Last fortnight, Mr. Howell caught a 792-lb. tuna after a 62-hr. fight. Not because he is 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs 130 lb., but because he discovered that in England last year L. Mitchell Henry landed an 850-lb. tuna, the feat made him feel "rather small." Last week, the first fish Mr. Howell caught weighed 830 lb. Disappointed, he set out again, felt a strike almost immediately, landed his record tuna...
...farmers in and out of the drought area, the reasons were as plain as a pig's snout. For corn farmers will get double last summer's prices. For livestock, poultry and dairy products, which constitute the bulk of farm income, they can expect to realize nearly $700,000,000 more than last year...
Classic example of the prosperity which other farmers may enjoy is the State of Iowa. Last year her 450,000,000-bu. corn crop, at an average price of 31¢ a bu., was worth $136,385,000. This year's crop, estimated at not more than 261,000,000 bu. will sell, experts agree, at above 62¢?a total net gain for the State of some $25,000,000 over last year. With last week's hog prices up to $6.65 a cwt. against $2.80 in June, the Des Moines Register & Tribune's able Farm Editor J. S. Russell...