text: **LIST OF EXHIBITS**
  
  **HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION**
  
  2.1(1) 
  
  Agreement and Plan of Merger and Plan of Reorganization dated January 22, 2001, by and among Hormel, Badger Acquisition 
  Corporation, Jerome Foods, Inc. and Jerome K. Jerome. (Incorporated by reference to Hormel's Current Report on Form 8-K 
  dated March 9, 2001, File No. 001-02402.) 
  
  3.1(1) 
  Certificate of Incorporation as amended to date. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3A-1 to Hormel's Annual Report on Form 10- 
  K/A for the fiscal year ended October 28, 2000, File No. 001-02402.) 