Survey of English Dialects recording in Muker, Yorkshire

[Side 1] Cooper talks about mowing by hand, explains grass would 'lig' [=] for day before being turned and put into 'lile cock/foot cock' [= small pile of hay], 'lap cock' [= medium-sized pile of hay] or 'jockey cock' [= large pile of hay], comments process now much quicker, mentions demise of 'lea' [= scythe] and reduction in itinerant Irish labourers since mechanisation, talks briefly about changes in dairy farming. [Side 2] Cooper talks about recent rise in pig farming locally, describes traditional method of 'sticking' [= killing] pig, incl. use of 'greasing stool' [= bench for slaughtering and dressing pig], converted to humane killing c.1935/6, discusses meat and by-products incl. 'crappings' [= scraps left after rendering pig fat], 'collop' [= cut of meat for frying], 'blether' [= bladder] and 'saim' [= pig fat/lard].