On his big farm out to the northwest of town, Clay Hogan has raised, this season, about 250 pigs. Some of them he sold as shoats, others he kept and fed until they reached a huge size. Now he has 180. He is killing 3,000 pounds a week. Almost all of it he sells to one man, a Mr. Cole, who lives two miles this side of Durham and turns the pork into sausage for sale to the Durham grocery stores.
From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, Jan. 10, 1924. A shoat is a young pig that has been weaned and is between 6 weeks and 6 months.
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