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5-8 -- Alternative Geography Assessment Items The Hog Farm A request has been made by the YORKSHIRE PORK CO. for permission to construct a large hog farm in Hamlet County. Some people support the request and others oppose it. In the space below, write a dialogue between Albert Bacon, who owns the YORKSHIRE PORK CO. and Jane Links, a resident of Hamlet county who opposes the construction of the hog farm. In your dialogue, have Bacon and Links debate the pro’s and con’s of the hog farm. Have each give good reasons to support their positions. Classification: Nat. Std. 18, KS 2; State Std. 17 D