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From: snitor!petert@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Toth)
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Subject: Re: rec.hunting Digest   V1 #31
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Date: 17 Apr 91 12:08:32 GMT
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In article <531@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> hunter@CCC.NERSC.GOV (NAME ) writes:
>
>	I am hoping to go pig hunting one of these days and I have a
>question about cleaning them. A book that I have says that you need to
>dip them in a barrel of scalding hot water and scrape the bristles off
>before skinning them.  Now, I very seldom take a barrel of scalding
>hot water with me when I go hunting. Is this really necessary, and if
>so, why?
>
>	Steven Hunter
>	Hunter@es.net


I don't know why, but my grandfather the farmer used to heap straw on the
pigs he slaughtered and set fire to the works, before butchering the pigs.
I suspect it has to do with hygiene. It also gets rid of the hair.

Good hunting

Peter Toth