1.   At the end of the day purchasers must satisfy themselves through legal advisers or surveyors, or both, that they are not buying a pig in a poke.

2.   Or if they are buying a pig in a poke at least they know that they are so doing.

3.   Americans may be charmed by a movie pig that talks, but they fear to buy a pig in a poke.

4.   But this spring, Pagan bought three pigs.

5.   Buying a pig in a poke is an inelegant but apt description of the deal.

6.   Stepan Simonuk is a farmer in Belarus who recently bought some pigs from a state-owned farm.

7.   That happened after he bought a pig on a nearby farm.

8.   As a child, he would ride north to Texas in a pickup truck to sell vegetables and buy pigs for the family farm.

9.   Farmers have also been advised to stop buying pigs.

10.   We are not buying a pig in a poke.