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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Probably because I grew up in Florida, we never did that.
> Heat and humidity. 

We usually scheduled butchering in January when it was most likely to be very 
cold.  We did several of those a year.  Neighbors would help us with ours and 
we would help them on theirs
 
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Lynda
> <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:
> > My neighbor down the road salted his hams last year. 
> He's still raving
> > about them.
> >

Never had them just salted.  Ours were always sugar cured,  wonder how much 
difference that would be.