Hence it is that Kansas possesses more of these latest models, self-lubricating mortgage removers than all New England and fifteen other states and territories.

Uncle Sam, our foremost connoisseur of pork, but with no especial partiality for Kansas, recorded in a report for January, 1907, that the Kansas hogs are worth "per capiter" 15 per cent more than the Missouri hog, 30 per cent more than the Kentucky hog, 56 per cent more than his Virginia compatriot, 97 percent more than the Arkansas hog, and 148 per cent more than Florida's favorites.

There is probably no other territory of the same area as Kansas where the conditions of climate and soil and food and care are more congenial to the hog's health and wholesome development, and he is nowhere found so developed except among and by a high order of people. High class swine are unknown and impossible among low class people. (top of next column)

The Kansas hog, in his sphere typifying the good, the true, and the beautiful, is a joy even to the Hebrew, and like the state that lends him as a solace to humanity, is in but the morning of his career. His one passport, everywhere demanded and always sufficient for entree to presidents, potentates, or peasants, in "Kansas on the Rind."

The figures below indicate the average value per head placed by the United States Department of Agriculture on the swine of the various States named, January 1, 1909.