490 FARMING FOR LADIES. [chap. xxiv. 



drain off the blood, and is the next morning 

 cut up by the butcher in either of two different 

 modes, when intended — as young pigs usu- 

 ally are — for pickled pork ; or, as grown hogs, 

 for bacon : the former being done in the man- 

 ner here represented in the portrait of a Berk- 

 shire hog ; while in the latter the 'whole side 

 of the parts there designated, from the head 

 to the ham, is cut into one, and, with the 

 bones taken out, constitutes " the flitch." 



1. The head and jowl. 4. The fore-loin. 



2. The spare-rib. 5. The hind-loin. 



3. The hand, or shoulder. 6. The belly, or spring. 



7. The ham. 



The head, being divided in two, is again se- 

 parated at the jaw ; the upper part being 

 called " the face," or " cheek," and the under 



