That way they keep his mind pumpin' and
can keep him from concentratin' on one of
thel]!. Back at the bunch he slips in, glad
for the chance to get his bearin's."
"How about the butchering?"
As he took a match from his pocket to
light the corncob pipe he had just filled
I could tell by his expression that he was
expressing complete disapproval.
"We never butcher razor·backs. We kill
them, haul them to the house and clean
them!"
"When do you start to kill them?"
"As they are milling around I, or those
of my neighbors who hallpen to be in on
the hunt, can see the marks on the ears.
Those that are mine, and not someone
else's, I shoot."
"What if there are some other people's
hogs in the bunch?"
"I tell my catch dogs to take those par·
ticular ones out of the group, and this is
part of the sport to get them away with-
out having them charge everyone around.
The dogs chase them off through the woods.
"Then, when none hut mine are left I
order my dogs to bay closer. Here the
tinglin' part really starts. It makes the hogs
madder'n caged tigers and now and then
one darts out to kill his tormentors. When
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they do this, I get in a head shot, and
usually it is all over with him. I follow
the huddle around until I have fallen all
of my meat hogs. Now I call the dogs off,
and the brood sows that are left run away
unharmed. And believe me, we all have had
a lively time.
"Some of the hogs will weigh up close
to two fifty, but mostly they range from
one twenty-five to two hundred pounds.
Now comes the part of the colored boys.
They catch the slain hogs by the ears and
feet and swing them up into the wagon.
Usually we had to use the ax to cut our
road into the woods, and they are ready
now to take the load out."
" How many hogs do you get in one
hunt?"
"We aim to get just about enough to
do us for meat. In my case it's about fif-
teen. After we get them to the house we
have regular barrels in which to scald
them, platforms to scrape them and soon
they are ready to hang in the smoke house.
Here the colored boys have a lot of fun.
The one who guesses the hog's weight
nearest gets the head. They all get other
trimmin's. The meat is packed in a salt
wash before the smokin' itself is done, of
course, and when it's unpacked from it, we
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serve a chittlin' dinner that is somethin'."
At first it seemed to me that thirty hams,
with all the other pieces, was a lot for
one family, but I learned that the meat for
the colored folks was rationed from the stor-
age also.
"IT a colored boy has a smoke house of
his own full of meat," my friend grinned,
"he also has a houseful of friends. So I
ration it all out from mine. The meat
lasts from one killing to another. And there
is no reason why it shouldn't, or that any-
one would ever want for food here. We turn
out champion movie actors, baseball pitch-
ers and politicians. I even furnished a
razor-back hog for movie use in Holly-
wood!"
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Half Million for
Ten Pin Parts
CHICAGO.-Since the agreement made
between Rock-DIa Mfg. Corporation and
H. C. Evans & Company, more than a mil-
lion dollars in parts and supplies have been
ordered for Rock-Ola's Ten Pins bowling
alley which is now being manufactured
under the patents of the H. C. Evans
Company.
The vast facilities of the Rock-DIa Or-
ganization were called into duty by an
agreement made between the two manu-
facturers to enable operators to get this
sensational game more quickly. Several
hundred factory employees have been
added and many carloads of lumber are
arriving at the huge Rock-DIa factory daily,
in order to supply a demand never before
heard of in the coin machine industry.
Operators will remember the time when
the Rock-Ola Company produced Jigsaw
and World Series pin ball games and
reached production as high as 1300 units
in a single day's operation. Now, with the
increased facilities in modern manufactur-
ing equipment, and th e increased size of
the Rock-Ola plant, this record will no
doubt be broken very shortly and a new
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a coin-operated amusement game produc-
tion line is stretched over such a long area.
On the fourth floor of the huge Rock-DIa
plant, the Ten Pins production line is in
full progress and stretches one solid block
from Kedzie Avenue to Sawyer Avenue,
and then circles around the back of the
building, which is another half block; so,
virtually, it is a block and a half long.
Never before in the history of the coi n
machine business has such a vast production
area been used for manufacturing a coin-
operated amusement game. "We need it,"
says Jack Nelson, General Sales Manager
of Rock-Ola, " to supply the orders coming
in every day for this game. It seems there
is no let-up."
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