
Back in the day they called hogs " mortgage lifters" because most families would keep a few hogs for meat and lard and sell the piglets or whole hogs. They could easily be fed from leftover milk from the family milk cow and cheap corn. Today we keep hogs for the same meat and lard and the same sale markets, we feed skim milk from our milk cow after we've skimmed the cream, and buy feed from the local mill. Today we call them "sat stackers" instead of "mortgage lifters"!