The government introduced pig clubs during the Second World War years of food rationing. The Small Pig Keeper’s Council (SPKC) was the national governing body that gave advice and …

Spared from a fate on a barbecue spit, this patriotic porker became a home-front star raising funds for building a battleship. The farmland near West Frankfort, Illinois, is a strange starting …

World War II King Neptune (May 16, 1942 – May 14, 1950) was a pig used by a United States Navy recruiter to raise $19 million (equivalent to $321,560,074 in 2023) in war bonds for the …

During WW2, when the weekly meat ration per person was only 1 shilling and tenpence halfpenny, many people in village/near country areas became members of pig clubs. About 6 …

One way of supplementing meat rations during the War years was to join a “Pig Club”. For centuries, gardeners and smallholders kept poultry and the odd pig or two for their own house …

2024年4月5日 · By war’s end, King Neptune had brought in over $19 million for the Navy — roughly $320 million today.

This article attempts to evaluate the significance of pig and poultry production on holdings of less than one acre in the UK during the Second World War. Since most of these holdings were …

2015年7月29日 · Born in 1942 on the Boner family farm in West Frankfort, Illinois, the pig who would be king was originally named Parker Neptune, taking the name of his father, Parker …

2016年9月7日 · Pig Clubs were groups of between four and 25 individuals who came together to raise pigs. They provided household food waste for the pigs to eat, cleaned the sties, and …

You know - you'd a 'legal' pig and an 'illicit' pig! And every one of the neighbours would collect any crusts of bread, scraps, bits and pieces, and when that pig was killed there was piece...