1. As America grew into a country, settlers butchered hogs in the fall so the meat could be safely cured over the cold winter months. 2. Berry put him to work butchering hogs in return for tuition at its high school and, later, at the college. 3. Hogs were butchered and their meat cured. 4. Lale shares memories of farm life, from butchering hogs to churning butter. 5. Soon the strong backs that had picked cotton and tobacco for the South were instead butchering hogs and bending steel for the North. 6. But officials also are continually conducting inspections in the markets to ensure that only uninfected hogs are butchered. |