Butchering day was an annual ordeal on the farm. This massacre took place at The Highlands, the Robert Miller home at Brown's Corner. Men's tasks were to slaughter the animals, scald and scrape the hides, carve the cuts, and cure the hams, shoulders, bacon, and jowls. Women prepared the kidneys, brains, liver pudding, sausage, scrapple, tenderloin, and spareribs, along with the lard for for cooking and making soap.

From his slaughterhouse on Haviland Mill Road, William Cuff and horses Harry and Polly made Saturday meat deliveries to Sandy Springers in the early 1900's. Ice from his ice house preserved his cuts. "On the way home in his market wagon," recalls granddaughter Ruth Cuff Kemp, "he always stopped at the Sandy Spring Store and bought nickel candies to drop off in the mailbox for Margaret, Billy, and me." The Cuff slaughterhouse was just across the Patuxent in Howard County.