Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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1. Why do you think the family sells hogs even though it has an undesirable scent?

21 comments:

  1. 1. I think they really need the money and they can not go into town a lot to sell or make money any way else.

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  3. The hogs can reproduce and the old ones go to the slaughterhouse and make money

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  4. Why can't they go into town or make money anywhere else?

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  5. 1. I think the family sells hogs even with the scent because they make the money the family needs.

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  6. Devon,
    Why doesn't the family go into town a lot? Try to be more specific please.

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  7. Jason, thats a good question. I will try to help but I am just guessing. I think the family does not have enough money to keep going to town, and they already own a farm so why do something else?

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  8. 1. The family sells hogs so they can make money. Why not do something else? They do not do something else because they do not have the money to keep going back and forth to the town. Also they own a farm, so why not have farm animals?

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  9. I think that they sell hogs because people need pigs on farms for livestock and they get money.

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  10. Jason why do you think that just the old pigs would go to the slaughter house?

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  11. Stephen-I like how you tried to "help" by answering the question. I appreciate that you are reading others' posts before responding. I think there may be some truth to your response. It makes sense to me.

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  12. Why not have other farm animals?

    Stephen-This is an excellent point.

    ****PONDER THIS QUESTION AND RESPOND EVERYONE****

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  14. They can't have anymore animals because it takes money to buy the animals in the first place. They don't have any money!?

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  15. Well Lily, they do not have much money because they are farmers. This might help. Remember in the Egypt unit when there was a social pyramid? The farmers were the lowest class next to slaves.

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  16. They don't have other farm animals because as Lily said they don't have money. Also hogs can have multiple purposes in the farm. You can use them to breed and then sell the babies, or you can send them to the slaughter house and have the meat for yourself or sell it.

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  17. I think that they sold hogs to make extra money to get extra food to feed Luke.

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  18. They raise hogs because they need the money especially with Luke's extra mouth to feed. They can't get a job in town because it's a long drive to town and back everyday. It's hard work but it pays.

    They don't have other farm animals because hogs are easier to take care of. You give them scraps and they'll eat them.

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  19. they raise hogs because even though they smell they're profitable and can be eaten easily. Plus they dont take much food as say a cow. you just hand them teh left oevrs or the scrap pieces and they're in hog heaven.

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  20. His father complained that the grain was selling at extremely low prices. they need to afford the extra mony. Why couldn't they have other animals? well for one hogs provide a lot of meat and if they get fat then they are even better. I dont have any other reasons why they don't.

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  21. Well, the hogs may not be the most pleasant to be around, but they can reproduce, and when they're big, they can go to the slaughter house for food, and can be sold. Also, as Connely pointed out, Luke's dad said grain was at a very low price. The hogs will give them more money, especially in this time for them.

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