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CURING HAMS AND BACON, j
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"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
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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- .
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ves and the thin meat by itself. ,
Keep this last in brine ten days. 11
II A!- on nurire of salt
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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
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Germany's Limitation of Skipping ,
Would Have Put T'jenj Below
Cost of Production.
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By Clarence Ousley, Assistant - ;
Secretary of Agriculture. <
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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- <
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, 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
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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
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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
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of Fall goods, full ?of choicest teready
for the inspection and ap- '
d thing when they see it.
i nice but inexpensive goods. We.
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>u with the nicest- and most appro*
i see our special attractions.
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her apartments were gone into and s
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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-which will determine whether or1 iiO
"they are to be treated as *ilfu
d?wrte""
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'lor-Cafe Cars,
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>r other information, cal
:ket Agent or write
FRED GEISSLER,
Asst. Gen. Pas?'r Agt
S. A.L.RWY.,
Atlanta, Ga. .
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! 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
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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
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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
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