I was raised in Oklahoma, and it is a rural state. A very important person in each county is the county extension agent. He helps the farmers with information on how best to raise their crops or their animals. There was a story once of a county extension agent who was driving along down a country road, and he saw a farmer out in a field with his pigs. The extension agent thought, well, that’s mighty strange, that farmer is doing something I’ve never seen done before.
He watched the farmer awhile, and realized that the farmer was picking up each pig, and holding the pig up to the apple tree, and letting the pig eat the apples off of the branches of the tree. Then when that pig was done, he would pick up the next one.
The extension agent got out of his truck, and walked over to the farmer. Hello, I’m the extension agent, and I’ve noticed that you are holding your pigs up to eat the apples off the tree. I have a suggestion for you, You know, if you would just shake the tree, the apples would fall off, and the pigs could eat them off of the ground. It would save an awful lot of time
The farmer looked at him and thought about it for a minute, and said, “What’s time to a pig?”
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