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== Family farm hog pen ==
[[Image:PigPenacp.jpg|thumb|Family farm hog pen with [[Hampshire pig]]s]]

The '''family hog pen''' was a small-scale system of pig farming found on [[family farm]]s of the early 1900s, although backyard pig farming does still occur. Family hog pens enclosed just a few hogs to provide year-round meat for the table. Before refrigeration, some family farms depended on pigs as a primary source of meat and shortening ([[lard]]) for year-round food.  Farms which had [[Tenant farmer|tenant]] families might have several hog pens. This is vastly different from the modern American [[Intensive pig farming|hog farm]] which have an average of about 2,000 [[Hog (swine)|hogs]], with the largest raising hundreds of thousands.