On That Date, No. 18
/"This plan of supplying beef has been lately introduced in a number of cities, and to a certain extent is working a revolution in the fresh beef trade."
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/“It’s too soon yet to tell what effect this confinement-unit system will have on the hog business. No question but that the idea’s booming.”
Read MoreOn That Date, No. 16
/"We're all biting the bullet and just trying to keep it from going off in our mouths.''
Read MoreThe Q&A Series: Novella Carpenter
/"I am more of an anarchist, not interested in, and too busy to dabble in, politics."
Read MoreOn That Date, No. 15
/"California now leads all other states in beef slaughter. It has put beef feeding on a factory basis . . ."
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NOTE: This ran on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the old website; didn't get "published" here during the transition from old site to new.
“Cincinnati is the greatest place for hogs in the world; and they have the greatest method of raising them here of any other place which we know of. A man will turn out a bevy of young pigs . . . in December say . . . and they will run at large in the streets until the next November --- when he goes out to look up his pork.
Hogs look much alike, and [he] selects twelve of the finest looking . . . and drives them home, astonished at the increase. And thus, raising hogs, which is expensive elsewhere, is carried on without trouble or cost --- as they are fattened by the public at large, for the benefit of their owners.”
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“Swine,” Cincinnati Mirror 5, no. 8 (March 19, 1836): 63.