A farmer had five female pigs.

Times were hard, so he decided to take

them to the county fair and sell them.


At the fair, he met another farmer who

owned five male pigs. After talking a bit,

they decided to mate the pigs and split

everything 50/50. The farmers lived sixty

miles apart. So they agreed to drive thirty

miles each, and find a field in which to let

the pigs mate.

The first morning, the farmer with the female

pigs got up at 5 A.M., loaded the pigs into the

family station wagon, which was the only

vehicle he had, and drove the thirty miles.

While the pigs were mating, he asked the

other farmer, 'How will I know if they are pregnant?'

The other farmer replied, 'If they're lying in

the grass in the morning, they're pregnant.

If they're in the mud, they're not.'

The next morning the pigs were rolling in the

mud. So he hosed them off, loaded them into

the family station wagon again and proceeded

to try again.

This continued each morning for more than a

week. The next morning he was too tired to get

out of bed. He called to his wife, 'Honey, please

look outside and tell me whether the pigs are in

the mud or in the grass.'

'Neither,' yelled his wife, 'they're in the station

wagon and one of them is honking the horn.