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**optormtix** · 04-17-2012, 12:57 AM

During the depression farmers were permitted only a certain number of hogs. Neighbors would split a swine herd up so as to fall below the threshold.

During WWI (phase II) my grandmother raised black market chickens in her basement. City folks who wanted a chicken dinner would travel out to the farm to buy them. Didn't want to have these out in the open as they could then be "rationed".

04-17-2012, 12:57 AM	#4
optormtix Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	During the depression farmers were permitted only a certain number of hogs. Neighbors would split a swine herd up so as to fall below the threshold. During WWI (phase II) my grandmother raised black market chickens in her basement. City folks who wanted a chicken dinner would travel out to the farm to buy them. Didn't want to have these out in the open as they could then be "rationed".
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