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This little high-tech piggy...Jim Long, 30, holds one of the offspring produced by the Canadian Baconmaker operation, a program developed on his famil(...)
This little high-tech piggy...Jim Long, 30, holds one of the offspring produced by the Canadian Baconmaker operation, a program developed on his famil(...)

This little high-tech piggy...Jim Long, 30, holds one of the offspring produced by the Canadian Baconmaker operation, a program developed on his famil(...)

Date3/30/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: This little high-tech piggy...Jim Long; 30; holds one of the offspring produced by the Canadian Baconmaker operation; a program developed on his family's farm to improve and market hog seed stock. Computers are part of this breeding brushes and have helped make Wood Lynn Farms a big exporter to the U.S.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0023147F
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