During the early 1900s; the price of meat became lower than production cost. As a desperate move, farmers killed their young pigs. The young Simplot got 700 pigs. He hunted wild horses and used their meat as feeds for his pigs. Simplot also collected potato rejects for feeds. His cost of raising pigs was zero—except hard labor. Later on when the supply of a pork became scares, he sold his 700 pigs for $7, 800. At age 14, he was a rich boy.