Here's my first work of fiction--even in eighth grade I broke the rules. If you missed my remarks about it, read them here. Hog Farming Willie the pig had only been born yesterday. He lay in his pen with his four brothers and sisters. He was still young and did not know that his owner, whose name was Dick, was going to sell him to a butcher. Dick always gave him a lot of separated milk which was very important to him, and made him grow like a weed. Every morning Dick checked carefully to see if he had any sicknesses. Days went by and Willie grew. Dick sold him to a man who was fattening hogs to butcher. His name was Fred. Fred gave Willie a clean place to sleep and play, along with nine other pigs. He chased them all into one pen. He always gave Willie and his companions a lot of separated milk which helped make them fat. Milk is high in protein and very good for pigs. It is easier to buy small pigs and fatten them because for fattening pigs you can put them all into one pen. While for raising little pigs you have to have a separate pen for every mother pig. One day Fred’s boy, Bob, came out in the middle of the day and let the pigs out. The sun was shining very brightly. Bob didn’t think he was harming the pigs. They were out in the sun for two hours before Fred noticed it. Fred then hurried to chase them back in, but Willie was not too willing to go back in. He decided to run away. It was another half and hour before Fred got them back in. The next morning both Willie and his nine companions were very sick. Fred quickly went to town to buy medicine. It was two weeks before Willie had recovered. He had lost 30 pounds, but as time went on Willie regained his strength. When Willie weighed two hundred and forty pounds Fred butchered him and sent him to Tegucigalpa (town where the market was). He sold him for 95 centavos a pound, and that was the end of Willie the Pig. Both Fred and Dick enjoy this job. Source of information--Abner Stoll and Alva Stoll |
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