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larry@stinescorner

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A picture of some of the hogs my dad raised at the farm in NJ ,Many years ago
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rrlund,
I am guessing that pic was on a nice spring Sunday.
I wonder how high that haystack started out as if it is 12' or so after setting there for all winter plus some months.
 
Reminds me of the time I was working in a rural area with a guy from New York. We saw a half grown hog with its head inside a dead cow rib cage. He said "I will not eat bacon ever again."
 
No that is real old time bacon. That is the stuff that had real fat on it. When you cooked up a mess of that the bacon would start spitting and then when you cracked a couple of eggs in they would slide around the pan with the bacon. Eggs would cook correctly and not stick like today.
 
Reminds me of when dad still had his. Growing up everybody had at least a couple hogs. Can't remember the last time I seen hogs around.
 
Years ago I was eating breakfast at this guys house where he had a pig tail hanging from a string next to stove. He swirled it around the pan to grease it.
 
My grandfather came here from Europe about 1911 and shunned farm life and moved to the city as soon as he could. Spent his life scrounging, buying, selling, that sort of thing. I don't ever remember him without a dress shirt and tie on, suit pants and a jacket too. Not the dress-up generation you see nowadays though, his clothes were pretty much worn out and threadbare but always a shirt and tie, and a hat too. How things have changed, now they buy $200 jeans with the arse and knees ripped out which makes them even more expensive, crazy !!!
 
Reminds me of farm days in the 1950s. My father raised hogs but seemed to hate them. I think I was 11 or 12 before I found out that "SOB" and "hogs" wasn't all one word. And the horror stories I could tell of free-range chickens wandering into the hog pen! But I did once have an interesting pig I could put into a hypnotic, falling-down trance across the fence with nothing but my voice.
 
A couple of more photos from my family's hog farm in NC. Probably from 70's or 80's. No hogs there anymore. My dad's youngest brother still lives on the farm but rents the land out.
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where are these people i could sell them mine they will probably have grass,grease,oil and maybe cow poo stains for more earthy look.
 
If you don't want eggs to stick, set burner to about medium and preheat a non-stick pan. Put in a little olive oil and spread it with a spatula, then add your eggs. You can cook eggs sunny side up without the cholesterol from meat grease. It may take a few times to figure out the correct heat setting.

We had eggs sunny side up, broiled asparagus, toast and juice for breakfast this morning. Yum. Its one of our favorites.
 
Nancy Where is the fun in the low cholesterol diet??? LOL Drives my wife nuts. I eat everything they say will kill you as far as cholesterol is concerned and mine is low normal. She eats like a bird because of her diabetes and has sky high cholesterol.
 
Pigs raised in a dirt lot, where they can root around, have a much more solid muscle mass. The meat will have ten times the flavor of the confinement raised hogs. The trouble is it takes about half again the amount of feed to get them to market weight. The hogs we eat today are babied to where they burn few calories exercising. They gain faster but do not taste as good.
 
That's all true JD Seller. We still raise hogs on a dirt lot and sell them to people who know and appreciate the difference. We sell them for a $1 per pound live weight and delivered to local processors. The customer decides how they want them processed and pays the processing fees. We have a good demand for them and a waiting list. The finished price to the customer is competitive to the grocery store prices. We have a lot of repeat customers.

There is a real tangible difference between commercially raised store bought and home grown pasture raised pork. A lot of people will pay for it, even here in a lower income rural area of the Midwest.
 
The problem with modern hog operations is (among other things) the investment. Put the hogs out on pasture in A frames. About the time dad finaly got out of hogs is about the time elevated farrowing crates started coming out. Alot of investment. But now they are obsolete because every thing is slat floor barns and we wonder why agriculture is going down the toilet. We are buying $250k tractors to farm a section and over in some third world country they are farming 40 acres with a walk behind tiller and if their lucky a tractor that we would call a "garden tractor". Sod Buster.
 
Sounds good, but the best way to have asparagus for breakfast is take fresh from the patch asparagus, boil it til tender and cream it with a bit of flour. The toast thick slices of homemade bread, pour it over like gravy. Lots of fresh ground pepper, and a little butter. It's an old family recipe that Mom passed on to my wife 50 years ago.
 
Only difference between what I do and what you do is mine are outside on concrete. I get a buck also and have no problem selling out
 
Awwww, that brings back memories of my childhood.

Except ours were all white. I always tried to talk Dad into buying some colorful pics - but he never would.
 
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