Renting pigs ???

[Razor]

I been watching LONESOME DOVE.... (yeah, again ! )

Gus takes a sign with sumthin about renting pigs writ on it...

I just gotta ask,, who would wanna rent a pig ??
Whut fer ??
Did them folks back then rent out pigs ??

Oh, an' weren't there a similar sign in JOSEY WALES

[Hawken50]

  I think that was just Gus's sence of humor.He would do anythin to git Woodrow goin.Remember a man who wants to rent a pig is hard to stop..

[NAULTRICK1]

  I think mebbe it has somfin ta do wif stud fees sorta I'm thinkin  And NO Hawk Ol' Buddy I'm Not Goin there!!!!! I'm too old and too slow and don't care fer the squealin (gives me a headache) 

[Hawken50]

 

[crazell]

 

[beowulf]

with prices being what they are it`s cheaper to rent the whole pig for a few days than it is to buy a pound of bacon !

[Razor]

Here I am, asking a serious academic question with significant historical ramifications and you're having an inordinate amount of jocularity at my expense.
You guys ain't a whole lot of help  !!   

[mongrel]

Good Lord. The poor delusional fool expected this crowd to be useful....

[crazell]

he should have figured that out by now.   

[NAULTRICK1]

First of all for us to expect a serious academic question with historical ramifications from you Razor......... OOOOh this is too much, you just caught us off guard it's all the long words ....Sorry!! but I can't help it

[Razor]

Hey, I resemble resent them remarks.   
Shudda knowed better than to expect anythin' else frum you buncha heathens....    

I'm gonna go refill my jug...

Thanks for the giggles fellas...  

[Honovi Mahala]

I dont know about rentin pigs but when I was in High School we rented a cow................for the milk mind you......after all there were 6 of us kids and we drank alot o milk.......course then we got to make our own butter, icecream, etc etc........damn good stuff if you ask me.

[DandJofAZ]

Cow< OK> but I will not milk a PIG>>  Might need one for truffel hunting??

Doug   

[Micanopy]

You rent the boar to breed yer sows. Keeping boars is a full time job, they tend to destroy everything, whereas the sow is content to just tear up her own stuff. The boar figures that all sows are in heat all the time so he is always trying to get ota his place and into hers. Plus penned boars tend to want to eat the piglits so the sow will come back into heat.