For several years H.U. Oakes of this city has beat all comers in the way of raising one-year-old porkers. It is an easy matter for him to raise 500-pounders in 10 months, which is not easily accomplished in the uninformed or amateur in raising hogs.
This year he had two thoroughbred big bone Poland China pigs which he bought 10 months ago at 8 weeks old from his sister in Davidson county. He killed them Monday and they tipped the scales at 500 and 515 pounds, respectively. Some hogs, we will say, and some sausage, too, because the editor received a liberal “mess” from friend Oakes.
From the front page of The Review, High Point, N.C., Dec. 15, 1921
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