SC - Pigs and hogs

[Decker, Terry D.]

Ras appears to be quoting from the inventory of Asnapium, a small estate.  

There were 10 sides of lard from the previous year.  There were 200 new
sides with fragments and fats.  Of live animals, there were 260 hogs, 100
pigs and 5 boars.

Ignoring the boars, the live count is 360 plus 100 freshly butchered giving
460.

Bear

> Ras said:
> > 
> > Of particular interest was the fact that Charlemagne's inventory shows
> 200 new
> > sides of lard. which indicates that there were 460 hogs on the estate
> that
> > had been recently butchered to provide lard.
> 
> Huh? I thought there were two "sides" of lard or whatever on each animal.
> Thus,
> how do you get 460 hogs from the 200 new sides of lard comment? Even if
> this is
> a reversal and it is 460 sides and 200 hogs, it still seem there are some
> three-
> sided hogs.
> 
> Thanks.
>   Stefan li Rous
>   stefan at texas.net
> 
============================================================================

To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".

============================================================================