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Title: agricultural forum?
Post by: franksolich on June 30, 2011, 08:14:16 PM: How about an agricultural forum here?

Just kidding, Thor, sir.

While looking for photographs of myself as an infant, I came across this. It's from the summer of 1938, in Fisher, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

This of course was way before my time.

Is there anything unusual about this pig, or was it just an ordinary pig?

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/dummiedestroyer/0738.jpg)

For some reason, its picture was taken, and I'd like to figure out why.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: longview on June 30, 2011, 08:17:29 PM: She looks like a nice, but ordinary pig to me, Frank. I'm not an expert on pigs, but I can usually tell healthy regardless of species.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: seahorse513 on June 30, 2011, 08:25:04 PM: Quote from: franksolich on June 30, 2011, 08:14:16 PM
How about an agricultural forum here?

Just kidding, Thor, sir.

While looking for photographs of myself as an infant, I came across this. It's from the summer of 1938, in Fisher, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

This of course was way before my time.

Is there anything unusual about this pig, or was it just an ordinary pig?

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/dummiedestroyer/0738.jpg)

For some reason, its picture was taken, and I'd like to figure out why.
Well i thought maybe she(he) was being promoted or won at a state fair.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: franksolich on June 30, 2011, 08:32:17 PM: Quote from: longview on June 30, 2011, 08:17:29 PM
She looks like a nice, but ordinary pig to me, Frank. I'm not an expert on pigs, but I can usually tell healthy regardless of species.

I'll bet our esteemed colleague JohnnyReb can instantly identify its breed and its bloodline, and whether it's a girl pig or a boy pig.

We have a lot of members here knowledgeable about agriculture (and small towns); even those who don't do the farm or small town thing any more, still know all they ever learned from it.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: seahorse513 on June 30, 2011, 08:38:31 PM: Quote from: franksolich on June 30, 2011, 08:32:17 PM
I'll bet our esteemed colleague JohnnyReb can instantly identify its breed and its bloodline, and whether it's a girl pig or a boy pig.

We have a lot of members here knowledgeable about agriculture (and small towns); even those who don't do the farm or small town thing any more, still know all they ever learned from it.
It's a female pig. She has teats. so she is pregnant or has had her brood of piglets.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: franksolich on June 30, 2011, 08:39:23 PM: Quote from: seahorse513 on June 30, 2011, 08:38:31 PM
It's a female pig. She has teats. so she is pregnant or has had her brood of piglets.

Oh. Now I see.

I was too modest to look.

Really.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: Thor on June 30, 2011, 08:57:58 PM: If'n I were to judge that pig at a state or county fair, I would probably say it's a prize winning sow. Not that I'm a great judge of all things Porcine, but it looks like a nice, healthy sow.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: IassaFTots on June 30, 2011, 08:58:59 PM: I'm with Seahorse on this. She probably was an entry in a competition or fair or something. Typically people didn't take pictures of walking food otherwise.
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: franksolich on July 01, 2011, 06:49:48 AM: Quote from: Thor on June 30, 2011, 08:57:58 PM
If'n I were to judge that pig at a state or county fair, I would probably say it's a prize winning sow. Not that I'm a great judge of all things Porcine, but it looks like a nice, healthy sow.

Judging from all that I know about the old family farm in Clarion County, Pennsylvania--which is, actually, quite a bit, given all the archival material about it--this was a pig fed on table-scraps and whatever else one fed pigs in those days; this wasn't a pig fed out of stuff from big paper bags.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/dummiedestroyer/0738-1.jpg)

From the same collection of photographs, again in 1938, the same farm; my youngest great-uncle.

He was an alum of Pennsylvania State College (now Penn State), in civil engineering. He went to work for a big engineering firm in Philadelphia, but at the age of 28, decided he'd rather farm, and so leaving all that behind him, went into farming. (In this photograph, he's 37.)

So much for the stereotype of the "dumb farmer."
Title: Re: agricultural forum?
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 01, 2011, 07:35:21 AM: Dang Frank, I got your e-mail but I liked to have never found the agricultural forum.

I don't see anything special about the hog....except she'd look better on a breakfast plate. And the hogs we raised to eat only got table scraps. When they got larger and needed more food, some dry corn still on the cob. If we were raising some to sell, then they got store bought feed and dry corn on the cob out of the barn.

About that DUmb farmer, I'll put his well rounded knowledge of just about anything and everything up against a DUmmie with a PhD any day. The DUmmies, the smartest people in the world, would and will die from a multitude of causes when the SHTF...the DUmb old farmer will still be plodding right along.

TOTAL change of subject here. I hope somewhere, somehow, all the acquired knowledge of the world is stored in written form on paper or some other solid, readable, material, not computer tapes/disc/etc.. I would hate to think that in the end all practical knowledge such as simple farming with animals was lost because of the sudden demise of the electrical/computer age. There is already a lot of things my ancestors did to survive that is no longer used and it is long forgotten why or how they did it.

While we no longer "do it that way", it should be remembered how and why it was once done that way. We may have to go back to "the good old days" some day.