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when the horses were fed you would see them in the feed bins, when we got the automobile we took out some of the stalls and used it for a garage. When we moved to Jamaica we had a pig pen on the side of the barn, the first year here Dad had a hog guess, this was a big time in many of saloons in the fall of the year, you buy a ticket for fifty cents, mark on the ticket what you think the hog will weight when it is killed and dressed, the one who guessed near the weight gets the hog, all the tickets are in a sealed box and is opened when the hog is dressed, some of these hogs weight as much as 500 pounds, there was plenty money bet at these guesses, Ken Rosenkranz was good at this, I remember seeing him in the hog pen with a tape measure, he would pursuer the hog

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