Swine show reminds fairgoers pork was most popular meat

The 4-H and Open Swine show will kick off the judging Wednesday of Fair Week, the pigs being first in the arena might coincide because pork was the most popular meat found on the pioneer farm table. Meat, not bread was the staff of life for Frontier farmers. Cherokee County farmers who didn’t yet have much livestock lived largely on deer, turkey, grouse, pigeon, squirrel and other w...

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