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X *?u News for t CURING HAMS AND BACON, j ???? J ^ "Please give me the best method for curing hams and bacon." There are different ideas about the curing of hog flesh. Some use the dry salting method and some use the brine method, and first-class meat is made in both ways. I was raised to consider the dry salting method the only one. My mother was a famous hand at meat-curing and taught me how to cut the hog and cure the meat. In later years I tried the brine method because I , found a friend successful in making the best of hams in this way, and ' it is certainly far less work than Hrv saltine. Hence for many years ' ? w I used the brine method till I had no hogs to kill and no smokehouse and have had to depend on buying my meat already cured. Sometimes I get good and sometimes poor hams for as a rule I cannot get here home-cured meat, but have to take the packing hause hams which are not the real thing of my early manhood at home by any sort of comparison. In the first place, let the meat get perfectly cold before you cut the hog up at all. You cannot cut and trim the meat properly till it is cold and firm. Cut the hams with a short hpck and trim them in good rounded shape. Make a brine strong enough to float an egg, and pack the meat in this for three days. Then take it out and / either make a new brine or boil and skim the first and return the meat, putting hams and shoulders in a cask to themsel- . t ves and the thin meat by itself. , Keep this last in brine ten days. 11 II A!- on nurire of salt QQQ to tins ui xaw u*? w?...? ? petre for each 100 pounds of meat. , The hams and shoulders are let stay in the brine three weeks. Then take out and hang and smoke with ( any sort of wood except pine, or ( with corn cobs. Corn cobs smothered down with green cedar brush make an excellent smoke. When properly smoked, make a mixture of black molasses and black pepper and ( paint the meat over with this. Wrap . on thick paper and put in cotton bags , and dip these in white wash and hang . in a dark house. The side meat after 1 ' smoking can be packed down in bran or oat chaff. The hams and shoulders will be at their best at the next , year's killing time.?Progressive , Farmer. lirAD TIMP FARM PRICES 1 Tf MI\ 1 imu a 1 1 Germany's Limitation of Skipping , Would Have Put T'jenj Below Cost of Production. 1 t By Clarence Ousley, Assistant - ; Secretary of Agriculture. < I- i It has been lightly asserted that 1 the American farmer has no mater- ' ial interest at stake in the war with [1 Germany. Let us see. Those who i ] think that there is nothing in the American cause except the privilege of pleasure seekers to travel on 1 passenger ships to Europe must nave i forgotten the specific condition upon i1 , which Germany offered to permit i American shipping. Without reviewing the tragic events which caused 1 the death of 226 American citizens 1 including women and children, without discussing the sinking of any particular ship, and) without even ' considering the four separate and ] distinct promises of Germany in ef- 1 feet not to sink ships without safegarding the lives of passengers and crews, let it be recalled that in her declaration of purpose of January 1 31, 1917, to extend the submarine jj zone to Great Britan, France and : Italy and therein to sink all ships re- : gardless of flag or cargo, she offered i to this country as a special iavor 'cfce privilege of sending one steamer a week each way to the port of Fal- : mouth, England, upon condition that it should be striped with three stripes each a meter wide, white and red alternating, and upon the further j condition that a guaranty be given that such ships should not carry con- ; traband. Perhaps one ship a week each way j would accommodate the pleasure < ekers but how much of our export < and import business would it accom- < J-A. O , moaaie: In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1 191 we exported to Europe farm 1 products to the value of $1,12_,651,- ] lie Farmer 985. Among these products are the following: Animals, alive $ 7,080,122 Dairy Products 3,220,893 Eggs 4,391,653 Packing House Pro. 162,706,355 Cotton - 147,357,195 Fruit . 36,345,517 Grain & Grain pro. 210,523,721 Oil Cake and Oil Cake Meal 29,441,252 Oil Vegetable 24,044,_01 Tobacco 49,353,595 Let us consider the two items of cotton and wheat. The cotton consists of 4,562,295,675 pounds or 9,124,591 bales. The cotton alone would require at the rate of 10,000 bales to the ship more than 900 ship cargoes. "As there are only 52 weeks in the year, it will be seen how long it would take a ship a week to move the cotton alone. The wheat consisted of 91,602*974 bushels. It will be an interesting calculation for the children to figure out how many cargoes of 2500 tohs each would be required to move this wheat to Europe and how long it would take at the rate or one caiv go a week. . As to these two main products and as to other farm products, not to speak of manufactured products, their commercial value depends upon the foreign market. Without a foreign market for cotton, foi- instance, even this year with the probable crop of only 12 million bales we have for export something like five million bales above the American consumption of approximately seven million bales. If we could not export cotton, therefore, we would have a surplus of five million bales and that surplus would cause cotton to decline from the present high price of 26 or 27 cents a pound to a price far below the cost of production. As illustrative of this point it is necessary only to recall the conditions in 1914 when at the beginning of the war shipping was uncertain and as a consequence cotton sold at six or seven J TirifVl t>|p_ short cents a pounu. wheat crop this year we have something like 100 million bushels more than we need for consumption in the United States. It happens that Europe needs noc only that 100 millions but very much more, but if we had accepted Germany'r. dictation and were to send only one ship i week to Europe, that 100 million bushels above our own needs would be a surplus which would carry the price of wheat below the cost of production. ^ The right to use the seas is the right to buy and sell in the markets of the World. To be denied that right is to be compelled to live upon our own resources. Of course we :an do that in this wonderful country but we can prosper as a nation and as individuals only by trading our surplus of products for the surplus of products which other people have to sell. If, for instance, our farmers could sell no more cotton or wheat than is needed in this country many farmers would be compelled to quit raising cotton and wheat and would use their lands for other farm products and thereby they would cause a surplus production in all farm products. To have accepted Germany's dictation, 1 ' fry rmt therefore, wouia nave u?u w r? our agriculture in a state of complete suffocation by taking from every farmer the value of what he produced above what he needed for his own consumption. The same power that would forbid our exports would also in self interest forbid our imports except in the interest of that power. Therefore, to have yielded to Grmany's dictation would have restricted us to imports from Germany alone and would have made us pay tribute for all time to her industries. ' If we had acquisced in the limitation of one ship a week we would have conceded the right of Germany to regulate our exports and imports as she might see fit now or hereafter. We had the choice of submitting to that dictation or ot fighting to maintain our right to sell and to buy wherever we might sell or buy to advantage. It is inconceivable that an American citizen, regardless of his material interests, could yield to such dictation by a foreign power but on the low plane of material interests we had | Ours Is A Little I The Ordinary Jeu Our new and beautiful line lections for the trade is now proval of all who know a goo We have New Novelties ir have Choicer and Miore Costl ALL pricos we can supply yt priate articles. Do :aOt fail to W. E. JOHI Abbe1 : 1/^1 a y Jr nu 1 i Ci / Child f ToS I Start the 1 right by maki to save th A personal suving VL a high-class ban tion like this are given th< and encoui die their is a j!oo right dii dollar op< i I Safety?Honesty TL _ M _ j * me 11 a.Li Abbev to fight Germany or cease to be nation of prosperous producers ar become a nation of peons to Pru sian autocracy. A Stitch in Tii t ready now for those sudden it are sure to come. Get a I Heater. It's always relia _ j i* ? i_ neu irom ropm to room, eco V and to use; good-looking, d uble-proof. w used in over 3,000,000 hoi e best fuel is Aladdin Security ht hourscheerfid warmthfore\ "ANDARD OIL CO] (New Jersey) ingtom, D, C. UAL11MO&B lk, V*. ]?X toad. Vs. ~ : .. , ;, , : _ ., ., . ? . 3etier Than )dry Store. of Fall goods, full ?of choicest teready for the inspection and ap- ' d thing when they see it. i nice but inexpensive goods. We. j Gifts. But in ALL grades and >u with the nicest- and most appro* i see our special attractions. ^JSON, Jeweler rille, S. C. r' ? 1 "J < ( i ach Iren Hi ave Vr| 1 ciddies |Tj I eir money. ?PV S ,s account in king institui, where children e proper attention agement to han? own finances d start in the ection. One ;ns an account. C.mirtovM Sk&r\tiri> I c * C onal Bank : ille S. C. I ?? ""*! c a While a lady was attending a i lcj smart concret at a hotel in Chicago e her apartments were gone into and s s" her clothes were all stolen, among s the articles lost were four suits, j ? i UP! . lie i v -J" cold snaps Perfection :i? TUIC, casuy nomical to urable and nes. 1 r Oil?gives rery gallon. VfrANY ^ ||ig(jaHwlhCTO3|v ' >/" ^EAB Air Line Raft - 'THE PROGRESSIVE SOU Steel Equipment I Observation-Pai Thru Coachesar To principal points Nor! For rates, schedules c an nearest Seaboard Tic C.S.COMPTON, rraveling Pass'r. Agt. 5. A. L. RWY., ' Atlanta, Ga. Economy You Purity Your Your JJncle Sam wants you to be of Food, but there is not a citizen < he wants to go hungry. In the matter of Conservation of the longest way. You cannot econot Hurts obtainable. Hiehlv nourishing cheapest in the long run. Feed your familly from our stoi out for the best from every vie^ some and at the same time highlj very best way to economize. I W. D. B leven dresses, two sets of furs, most >f her lingerie, fifteen pairs of ihoes, a cameo pin, two bracelets ind a strand of beads. At the Great Lakes naval stations ;he chief master at arm, who is dis:iplinarian of the mess hall is trya trAnwA f n Hg LU Lcacu U1C jrv/UIlg J w :at with their forks instead of spoons and knives. He has five as;istants and it takes them all. While t few of them know all details of AN OLD RECIPE B TO DARKEN HAIRS " I Sage Tea and Sulphur Turns Graj,B Faded Hair Dark and Glassy. Almost everyote lcnoirs that &jRe Tea and Sulphur, prtffcferly .compounded, bringB back- the i natural color and lustre to the' hair when faded, streaked or gray. Years^ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which * & mussy and troublesome. :.V;( Nowadays we simply ask at drug store for "Wyeth's Sage anc Sulphur, Compound." You will gel a large bottle of this o^time recipe improved by the addition oi other ingredients, at very little cost Everybody uses this preparation now, because no one .can possbly tell that yon darkened your hair, a! it does it so\naturalIy and evetaly, You dampen a spongy or soft- brust with it and draw this through youi hair, taking one small strand afe- Ail time; by morning the gray hair-di* appears, and v after another application or two, your hair becoftiei beautifully dark, thick and gloss} and you look'years younger. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compouoc is a delightful toilet reamrite^'^ii is not intended for the cure, mitiga tion.or prevention of disease.?-Adv :'i\ ' > V' ' fi-^% THOSE WHO IGNORED "RED CARDS" FACE PENALTY New York, Nov. 30.?Roger B Wood, director of the draft in Ne? York City, announced that by diree tion of Adjutant General , Sherrill 217 negroes who' ignored tfee w're< cards" sent to them will be "arrest ed on sight." These 4 men will b< taken before their local board . -which will determine whether or1 iiO "they are to be treated as *ilfu d?wrte"" OARD way Company l RAILWAY OF TW " 'lor-Cafe Cars, cd Sleepers. ht South, East and West >r other information, cal :ket Agent or write FRED GEISSLER, Asst. Gen. Pas?'r Agt S. A.L.RWY., Atlanta, Ga. . HI . I 1 ir watchword H Standard I ! as saving as possible in the matter of these good old United States that food, remember this: The Best goes aize by using the cheapest food pro- H| food comes higher in price and is the DB I e. We are constantly on the watch -point. If it is pure and whole7;>^fl r nourishing, we have it. 'Tis the [J arksdale I n table etiquette there are .other^H who do not. To avert confusion in distinguishing! second lieutenants and enlisted meH Qflnvflfow Polrai* Vioc oiifVmr 170^ distinctive insignia of rank for th^H lieutenants. They will wear a gol^H bar on the shoulder of the unifon^D coat and a loop of brown braid oH| the overcoat sleeves similar to thH| black loop on the overcoats of I lieutenants. MB J