HOG BUTCHERING

I was very happy growing up. We didn’t have much. We had plenty to eat. More to eat back then than you do now, and it was so much better. Daddy generally had two big hogs every year. Plenty of meat. He generally killed a beef every year. Have a big crib full of corn, pumpkins, kershaws. And then we made all kinds of cabbage, turnips, beans, soup beans, brush beans. And put up sixty gallon barrels full of beans, kraut, and roastin’ ears. We’d dry peaches and apples on a big kiln. Most anything you needed to eat, we had. We had plenty of milk and butter and kept two or three good milk cows. Chickens and eggs. You didn’t have to buy nothing unless it was a little coffee or a little flour. There ain’t no work a goin on like that to live now. It’s awful to study about way back then and now.