The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Hoe.Raising and Pork. Packing.

Years agone. When hogs were driven on
the chopf from Kentucky,to South Caro-
lima, and sold for three or FIVE, and some
times seven cents per pound in the mud
weighed with rusty steelyards whose
beam could easily be tipped by the booted
weigher, as he shouted the number OF
pounds with voice that drowned the
-seualiag Observation-Disclosures '7ewbose=
belly was girt with the cha6ng cord
spare RIBS beck b6nes, sausageS,; flied
liver, blood puddings, picked feet, souse,
boiled head, and jowl boiied.with turnips,
were the daily, bills. of .fareifo breakfast
and dinner on every farm iu: the land,
Yes. hog.kilhng time was the school
boys delight. hissvery: paradise. Many
is the pound Of bristlesIwe have, when an
urchin, jerked from .he dying, butchered
hog, which we afterwards washed and
combed and cleaned and punched and
sold to the cotton gin maker for fifty,
sixty and sqmeei ein1ss sssgsnty aeensss'
hog killing days, when The Awhoop and
yell of the droyer -wasa q ,yefys joy 'Ft6l tie
school.boy - those days when the bsawny
Kentuckians after the hogs were sold,
wonld; with budgeton his back, tah1at'
for his'distant home, and travel fartheri In
a day than his employer, Ycould, ride on
horseback. those days when Southern
bills Of fare. we're more. noted for. their
grease than their,yarjety, have all gone,
perhaps never tn return again.
We;pity the boyslthat are boys now-a-
days, because they, cannot enjoy those,
} Pluxarioua times shat existeds ahtes vuRs.
They don't enjoy, as We did, the tramp
ing through the sand after the droves Of
n,onstrous swise that begged thfough.,he
streets of all Oax lallages lsng age. .AEow
we cracked onr long whip thong at the
hipdmost, and jumped astride, some lazy
lubbeiIy. .fellowSt that could neaer, ,Eeepfup
in ranks.
Those immensel droves Of hogs'wefe
only brough. here, however, to supple:
ment the supply on hand for then, every
farmer. raised his own hogs Some enough
not to; buy any, others -bought-a little,
and then as now some bought all they
ate, and. consequently. they and their
''hands" enjoyed meal of meat sehni.S
occasionally: Most Of the farmers: boys
of to-day eat fresh hog meat when they
can get it when it is bought, aud it is
bought When the cfopis sdA sPrwil5N
there isanySmoneY leE afteEs nayfpg off
the handsI ths hefchaSt's lishGahdSiSci-
dental expenses, which, together, usually
aggregate about as much as the crop is
worth. Consequently "son" eats precious
little fresh hog smeat, bat 'nibbies away
now and then at ss'piece'Gf salt pork, a
genuine c. r. S. brought from Cincinnati
Il, Sc L6nissor .T9wa or some other coun-.
try where pork picking IS more profita:
BILE than growing cotton.
If our farmers sons could only see
what we have seen' theyA woqld leach fit;
once get d pig, and before hext winter
raise enough hog meat to. at least feed
one member of the family without de-
pending op bought meat. For their ben
eft is we'll as fSf The edifcationI of the
farmers themselves, ne give the follow
ingdescriptin Of growing and'bGrehers
ing hogs in sthe ggsat,sN ,sNorthyest, that
granary where frequently corn is worth
10 little that it will pay only for tile
ttrouble of cultivating.
I The Northwestern States are generally.
,praaegiesa oSaiadnlatiSg; thietkhds arc
fertile; some Of them dg net,grow wheat
or small grain pro6tably, but they all
produce corn abuhdantIy: Indeed, corn
f.is 50 nearly q nuisance in. some portions
of the Northwest that we were once told
by a farmer up. there that his chickens
would not eati He shovelled it daily
from his uncovered rail pens broadcast
sst sns the gSsd I asE 5sSp' oq .s p9itsss
|they npleased.. 'To' utilize this super:
abundance of corns cattle and hogs must
he grown, thus selling the grain in the
shape sofs meat G HeiSce, Che hum6ef fof
hogs grown in most of the Northwestern
States is counted BY the millions in each
Estate.
T Middlemen, spectators, visit the farms,
buy,<here and there, concentrate at a
point, and ship train loads to the pack
ling centre, St. Louis, Chicago, Peoria,
indianapolis, Louisville, or, Cincinnati in
"donble deckedR.or two, story cars: II
the hogs are very large or very fat, there
is strong probability that from each car
4 few 'sfn0thefed.:l.or dead, hogs will be
dragged when the strain reaches its des.
Etinatiou. IF animal heat ia still felt in
ctths carcass, it is stabbed, and sold to the
I buehar ofrackM at1,ss shghF, discnn ht,
-ff,ssrH gsss: aItk kshs ytlding trough sm6