Dopson, Clifford 1985 December 17
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, family farm, corn planting, row marking with sled, using hand planter, mother's role, planting schedule, corn cutting, no shocking with binder, corn shocking, use of buck in shocks, corn husking, wooden pin variant, bundling stalks, grain types grown, cutting grain, cradling grain, bundling grain, shocking grain, pig butchering, heating water, bleeding pig, scalding pig, scraping pig, using corn knife to scrape pig, gambrel use, tackle block use, hanging pig, cutting carcass, drying meat and storing in oats, preparing tongue, no intestine use, blood dish, use of feet, brain not used, rendering lard