Good Old Days

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100 years ago

Jan. 3, 1913

A St. John farmer finds more profit in feeding wheat to hogs. That feeding wheat to hogs is profitable has again been demonstrated by Bert Wagner who early in the fall weighed in a bunch of porkers at his ranch, charging himself for them at the rate paid for hogs at that time. He then weighed all the wheat fed to them, charged himself for the wheat at the price then quoted and when marketed recently, found that his hogs had made him a profit of 22 cents per bushel on his wheat within 90 days, so that instead of marketing in the fall at...