Program on lockers and bacons in Iowa towns west of I-35 and north of I-80.

1. Pork from the Prairie:
Bacon of Western Iowa
Leo Landis

2. FINIS

4. Reading about Bacon

6. What’s Down with Bacon?
Iowa Pork 101
Brief History of Hogs
Bacon of the Western Prairies

9. How Many Hogs in Iowa in according
to December 2013 USDA Estimates?
20.5 Million Total…State human
population is 3 million
Today in U.S. — 65.9 million, give or take a few hundred thousand.

10. 57,409,583
47,683,951
30,354,213
323,247
1850
33,512,867
25,134,569
934,820
1860
6,034,316
1,353,908
1870
8,266,779
1880
Hogs in Iowa
1890
Hogs in U.S.

11. Meat Cuts from a Pig
Today
1839

12. Traditional Curing Recipes
Amelia Simmons, 1798
Mary Henderson, 1877
Elizabeth Lea, 1869 (1845)

13. Swine Terminology
Gilt—A female that has yet to farrow
Barrow—A castrated male
Sow—A female that has farrowed
Boar—A mature male
Pork Belly—Uncured bacon

14. Present & Past Types
Landrace
Poland China

15. Bacon-type Hogs

16. Lard-type Hogs

17. Improved Hogs

20. This is the font I Want
OHHHH,
BACON! 

23. Brine Injectors

24. Vacuum Tumbler
Slicer

25. Smokehouses

26. 11 pieces 
bacon, 3 cents
pr. pound

27. A Lot of Bacon — The Good News

28. 2014 Route

29. Corwith Locker

30. Skoglund’s Meats
West Bend

31. Nelson Locker
Hartley

32. Cherokee Locker

33. Holstein Food Locker /
Tiefenthaler’s Quality Meats

34. Yetter Locker

35. Arcadia Meats

36. Mike’s Meats, Carroll

37. Bagley Locker

38. Redfield Locker

39. 12 Bacons--2013

40. FINIS