Ham, Bacon, Pork, Lard
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March/April 1970
By the Mother Earth News editors
Inasmuch as pigs spend their whole life on concrete this makes possible maximum sanitation. Concrete floors are swept or flushed with a garden hose daily. A pit provides a sanitary, easy method of holding manure until it can be spread over the garden.
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Confinement on cement eliminates "rooting" and racing about. This results in unbelievably fast growth. John Hendricks, who is given credit for developing this method of growing hogs, reports average growth of a hog to be:
Age Weight
67 days 82 lbs.
132 days 195 lbs.
200 days 325 lbs.
The photos at below are our adaptation of the commercial hog raisers' confinement-on-concrete system which we have scaled down to a size suitable for 1 to 4 pigs. The confinement pen has worked out fine.
Watering is done automatically by attaching a Montgomery Ward double-drinking cup to the bottom of a barrel. This barrel can be fllled once or twice weekly with a garden hose.
Slaughtering
There is no need for the novice to do his own slaughtering, Your feed dealer will put you in touch with a man who will dress your pigs, smoke the hams, bacon, make sausage, hog's head cheese, liverwurst.
Or you can have your pigs slaughtered and dressed and do your own curing and smoking.
And boy - wait until you taste your own bacon and ham smoked country style - and that wonderful, honest-to-goodness all pork sausage - and fresh roast pork! If yours is as good as ours turned out you'll say you've never tasted any so delicious ever before.
With a proper set-up, fattening a pig will return more for the time spent than most any other project.
Suggested Reading:
How to Raise a Pig Without Buying Feed,
35¢. Homestead Pork Production,
$1.25. Feeds and Feeding,
1,050 pages, $7.00. Tells how to mix feed for all farm animals.
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