MONEY FOR NO PIGS

Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 3

MONEY FOR NO PIGS

COMEDY OP U.S.A. FARMING The pig restriction scheme of the United States Agricultural Adjustment Administration for reducing the output of pork prompted the following humorous letter which recently appeared in the columns of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, New York:— ! “Dear Sir, —A friend of mine in New England has a neighbour who has received a Government cheque for 1000 dollars this year for not raising hogts. So my friend now wants to go into the business himself, lie not being very prosperous just now; he says, in fact, that the idea of not raising hogs appeals to him very strongly. “Of course, he will need a hired man, and that is where I come in. 1 write to you as to your opinion, of the best kind of a farm not to raise hogs on, the best strain of hogs not to raise, and how best to keep an inventory of hogs you are not raising. Also, do you think capital could be raised by issuance of a non-hog-raising gold bond? “The friend who got the 1000 dollars got it for not raising 500 hogs. Now, we figure we might easily not raise 1500 or 2000 hogs, so you see the possible profits are only limited by the number of hogs we do not raise. “The other fellow had been raising hogs for 40 years and never made more than 400 dollars in any one year. Kind a* pathetic, isn’t it, to think how he wasted his life raising hogs when he could have made so much more not raising them!”