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• There are about 55,000 pig farms in the U.S., supporting more than 800,000 jobs. About 115 million hogs are marketed each year in the U.S., producing 22 billion pounds (9,979,032,140 kg) of pork.

• The most common breed of swine in North America are Yorkshire pigs, a breed that is white with erect ears. Although Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio have the most Yorkshires, they can be found in nearly every state.

• A female pig is called a sow or gilt, depending on whether she has ever given birth. A sow has had piglets, while a gilt is a young female who has never given birth. The sow gives birth twice a year after a gestation period of 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days. Her litter will be about 12 piglets, with each weighing approximately 2.5 lbs. (1.1 kg). Within a week, that weight will double. The sow will nurse the babies for three to five weeks, and after being weaned, the piglets are referred to as shoats.

• At as young as two weeks, newborn piglets can recognize their mother’s voice and will run to her when called.

• A female wild pig’s litter can be up to 14 piglets, which will remain in the nest for their first ten days. turn the page for more!

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• The word xenia has a variety of meanings.

To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s Pageeffect 2 the of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton.

• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather.

To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds.

• Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix.

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PIGS (cont’d): Wild pigs can live up to 20 years.

• Once a pig reaches 120 lbs. (54 kg), it becomes known as a hog. The boar is an uncastrated male domestic pig that is used for breeding. If a male pig is neutered, it’s called a barrow. The term boar can also refer to a wild pig of any gender.

• During its growth phase, a pig will consume 6 to 10 lbs. (2.72 to 4.54 kg) of corn and soybean meal feed daily. A fully grown pig can weigh between 300 and 700 lbs. (140 – 300 kg).

But pigs typically go to market at around 250 to 280 lbs. (113.4 to 127 kg).

• A pig’s hoof has four toes, and they use just two toes per foot to walk.

• A farm-raised pig’s diet is mostly corn, but a wild pig has a wider menu, including leaves, roots, fruit, rodents, and small reptiles.

• Even with their size, adult pigs are able to run at speeds of up to 11 mph (17.7 km/hr), the equivalent of a seven-minute mile.

• Pigs are noted for their intelligence, are smarter than dogs, and smarter than three-yearold children! They can be trained to do tricks and can be taught to use a litter box. They continually communicate with others through more than 20 different methods, from oinks to grunts to squeals, all of which have specific meanings – everything from mating calls to expressing hunger.

• Pigs are also very social, forming bonds with other swine, and enjoying curling up next to each other. Even wild pigs live in cohesive groups called sounders, some with as many as 300 members.

• Pigs were one of the first animals to be domesticated. Descended from the wild boar, China began domesticating them about 6,000 years ago. Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto brought pigs to the North American continent in 1539.

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• A pig’s eyesight is among the worst of all farmyard animals. However, their sense of smell is very powerful, and the nostrils on its leathery snout are very sensitive to touch, enhancing their search for food. They have even been used to sniff out buried land mines during wars.

• A hog named Reggie set the record for the heaviest pig at the Iowa State Fair in 2012. This swine weighed in at 1,335 lbs. (605.5 kg), compared to the usual weight range of 300 and 700 lbs. (140 and 300 kg).

• In the wild, the largest boar is the giant forest hog that reaches a length of 6.9 feet (2.1 meters). The heaviest is the Eurasian wild pig, which grows to 710 lbs. (320 kg.). In contrast, the pygmy hog weighs just 21 lbs. (6.6 kg).

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In addition to insulin, about 40 other medicines are made from pigs.

• For over 40 years, doctors have been using pig heart valves to repair humans’ defective heart valves. It takes about four weeks to prepare a pig valve for transplantation into a human. The pig valve lasts for about 15 years.

• In 12th-century England, the church offered a side of bacon to any man who could honestly swear before the church that he had not had a fight with his wife for a full year, giving rise to the phrase “bringing home the bacon.” These individuals were among the most highly respected in their community.

• The word “gammon,” commonly used in Britain, and refers to the hind leg of pork after it has been cured in a salty brine. A gammon knuckle is the foot end of the joint. It’s a popular dish at Christmas time, and on Boxing Day, December 26.

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You might be told you’ve won a prize when a check arrives in the mail, or that it’s a refund or payment for a service. Mystery shopping is a perfect example. After you do a few shops, they might tell you that you’re so reliable they have a bigger job for you: investigating money-transfer companies. They’ll send you a big check, which you’ll deposit into your account, and your job is to quickly wire the money back as a test.

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Time to cook up some pork facts during National Pork Month!

• Pork is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, accounting for about 38% of meat production. China accounts for more than half of the world’s pork consumption. The average person will eat 28 pigs over the course of a lifetime.

• In 1959, eight pigs were required to produce 1,000 lbs. (453.6 kg) of pork. Today, it takes only five pigs to reach that weight.

• Bacon is taken from the sides, belly, or back of the pig, followed up by curing or smoking the meat. If you hear the term “rasher” of bacon, it’s the British term for an individual slice of bacon, while a “flitch” is a side of unsliced bacon. It’s one of the oldest processed meats in history, with records of the Chinese salting pork belly clear back in 1500 B.C. Bacon accounts for one-third of all pork consumed, with over 2 billion pounds (907,184,740 kg) produced annually in the United States.

• There are some pretty unusual pork dishes served around the world. In Ireland, cooks serve up Crubeens, a dish of boiled pigs’ feet that are battered and fried. The Germans like Eisbein, consisting of boiled pickled ham hocks. In the Philippines, Hamanodo is prepared by cooking pork in pineapple juice. America’s Pennsylvania Dutch have been making scrapple for centuries. Scrapple is a mush of pork scraps and trimmings mixed with cornmeal or wheat flour and a variety of spices. It’s formed into a loaf and sliced, then pan-fried. Every little scrap of meat left over from butchering was added into scrapple, thus avoiding any waste.

• Pork blood soup may not sound too appetizing to some folks. As the name implies, it uses coagulated pork blood as its main ingredient, along with pig intestines, livers, and hearts, barley, and herbs. Another equally appetizing food known as livermush is served in the southern United States, a mixture of pig’s head parts, liver, and cornmeal.

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