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INDEX

Albuminoids, 5

Animal heat, 18

Average weights of hogs, 66

Backbone, average weight of, 67

Bacon and hams, 59
and sides, dry salting, 48
box for storing, 62
bug, season for, 62
dampness detrimental, 61
distribution of salt, 49
exports, 76
hogs, prices of, 77
pig, 16
preservatives, 48
quality wanted, 6
second salting, 48
weight of hogs, 48
Wiltshire cut, 72
world's supply, 74

Black pepper for skippers, 51

Bleeding the hog, 9

Blood puddings, preparation of, 36

Boiler for scalding, 10

Box for salting meats, 42

Brain sausages, 30

Brawn, 35

Breeding, 9

Brine, purifying, 42

Bristles, 14

Butchering on joint account, 2

Butcher knife in slaughtering, 9

Carcass, raising a, 21

Care of hams and shoulders, 44

Cauldrons, 11

Census of hogs, 2
of live stock, 2

Chine, 23

Chute for handling hogs, 68

Control of smoke house, 52

Cooling the carcass, 19

Co-operative curing houses, 76

Corn a fat producer, 5

Corn cobs for smoking, 52

Country dressed hogs, 64

Cracknels, 34

Crate for moving swine, 79

Crushed crackers in sausage, 32

Curing houses, co-operative, 76

Cutting up a hog, 23

Dermestes, 51

Devices for scalding, 14

Division of work, 18

Dressing and cutting, 18
bench, 10
hints on, 22
the carcass, 18

Dry salt for bacon, 49

Entrails, 22

Exclusion of insects, 61

Exports of pork product, 76
value of, 76

Farm price of hogs, 2

Fat forming foods, 5
producers, 5

Feeding chart, 5
for flesh, 5

Fence for orchard tree, 47

Flesh forming foods, 5

Fires in smoke house, 52

Fire proof smoke house, 54

Foods for flesh and fat, 5

Frozen meat, 18

Fuel for smoke houses, 52

Gallows for dressed hogs, 22

Gambrels, 22

Gate, device for opening, 68

Gates for handling hogs, 67

Griskins, 26

Hair, removal of, 14

Hams, a general cure, 44
American cut, 71
and shoulders, 44
in close boxes, 61
in cloth sacks, 61
in pickling vat, 46
in shelled oats or bran, 61
pickling with molasses, 44
picnic, 71
shaping, 24
Westphalian, 45

Handy salting box, 43

Hanging carcasses, 18

Head, average weight of, 67
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