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Hog Dog Mike
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« on: April 29, 2012, 03:51:36 pm » |
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We bought some extra hogs from this black guy named Sid. His hogs were always fat which produced more lard which was good in them days.
Sid charged .10 cents a pound for hogs on the hoof. Nobody had a scale that would way a hog because these went about 350 pounds. We cut the head off and weighed it on a cotton scale and multiplied by 10. The 350 pound hog's head weighed 35 pounds and my cousin paid him 35.00 dollars for that hog. Lots of money back in them days. I chopped cotton 10 hours @ .50 cents an hour to earn 5.00. Soooooooooo I would have to chop cotton 10 hours a day for 7 days to pay for that hog. Trust me--the cotton patch is a character builder.
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