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K SAVING THE HCM ? CURING ME^ The Essentials to Succe and Handling; Pro; ing and ! Southern farmers should make j their own meat, but, as is well! known, many are not doing it. I ^ ? vin ct n narr iUU Illdiiv lauucis ate- uu.<iuS k. or a whole, of their supply of meat j tfrom local stores. There are two objections to getting meat in this way. In the first place, a very cheap qualif * ty of meat is usually purchased. In ' the second place, this is an exceedingly expensive method of getting it, as it can be grown and cured at home for less than one-half the cost of the purchased meat. Many Southern farmers cou'd profitably dispose of their hogs in ? the shape of cured hams, shoulders, and sides. Very often these sixpieces of cured meat will bring more on the market than can be obtained for the whole animal when sold on foot. When hogs are worth eight cents a pound a 200-pound hog will bring j $16 on the market. This hog, if butchered, would yield about 27 j pounds of cured ham, at 22 cents a pound, $5.94; about 27 pounds of! cured shoulders worth, at 20 cent& a j pound, $5.40; 20 pounds of cured ba- j con, at 22 cents a pound, 5 4.40 ' These, six pieces of cured meat would \ therefore be worth $15.74, or al- j - most as much as could be secured for j the whole hog if sold on foot. The i head, the backbone, the leaf lard, i the ribs, and the liver and heart are i al! left at home as extras. Now before entirely satisfactory i home-cured meat can be produced; the following points must be odserved: The Right Kind of Hogs Must i>e Used. t -r Country-cured meat is subject to three common faults. First, it. often carries too great a proportion j of fat, especially the side pieces.; Second, it is often tainted with un- j desirable odors caused by improper j feeding, dressing or curing. Third, j it. is often too salty. The first two | objections may be avoided by the! proper selection, feeding and dress-! ing of the animals which are to be j r slaughtered. The very highest class : \ * of country-cured meat cannot be 1 made unless the hog is properly fat* . tened upon feeds tiiat do not taint the meat or render it soft and fiab by. Tne too iiDerai use 01 Kiicueu; slops often produces an unsatisfac-1 tory meat. The Animal Must JJe Killed Correct- j ly and Scalded Promptly. , To parevent fermentation in the j stomach and intestines while the \ animal is being dressed, it is wise to deprive the hog of all feed, except water, for 24 hours before killing i When fermentation arises the meat! is always tainted as the warm body of the hog takes up objectionable odors very quickly. The peculiar ^ odors which oftentimes accompany | home-cured meats are very largely : w due to fermentations which arise ir the stomach and intestiness after the hogs'are slaughtered. To insure complete and rapid i bleeding the hog should be as quiet as possible several hours previous to being killed, and should never be excited or violently exercised immediately before being slaughtered. { Many farmers stun the animals with j ** Kaoxtv inctrn m nn 4- r\ P oatma lr i n rl Ka- 1 d uca * * xuoti uui^ui sjl oumc aiuu i fore sticking, but it is thought that i more complete bleeding is accom- i plished when the animal, while yet: alive, is simply turned on the back and the he^rt pierced, or the main artery leading from the heart, severed with a long-bladed knife. The scalding water should be ready before the. animals are killed. The average farmer can make use of a barrel for holding the hot water | which may be heated in kettles, or j j hot stones or irons may be placed in! * * the barrel of water. When large numbers of hogs are to be dressed j it will pay to build a scald-' ing vat. As soon as the animal | is dead the body should be placed in ! the hot water, rear end first, and i kept there until the bristles along | ' the back and the hair on the feet! slip readily and easily. While in the j ** water the bodv should be kept in t constant motion. It is usually stated ! that the water should be at 190 de-i gree Fahrenheit, but the writer has found that a much lower temperature gives much better results. After many careful experiments, where a thermometer was used to obtain the ^ exact temperature of the water (a thermometer good enough for the work may be obtained for 25 cents at almost any drug store.) it was learned that temperatures ranging from 150 to 155 degrees finally loosened the hair and made it slip read-! ily, but to do this the body of the animal was held in the water more ? . .. i > G CROP. iT ON THE FARM v . f< ;ss Are Correct Killing k per Dressing, Cur- n Smoking. n 0 wmm?mmmm W than a minute; this, however, is a very great advantage as the danger & of "setting" the hair is very.small t( indeed. irl The Body Must Be Dressed Promptly. , ^ As soon as the hair is thoroughly removed the bodies should be hung *1 ud. washed with clean, cold water, and the internal organs removed. Q This should be done before gases ^ develop in the intestinal tract. Af- ^ ter the hogs are dressed the car- i( casses should be opened as wide as 11 possible in front, washed again with 0 clean, cold water and hung in the 05 coolest possible place until the fol- g lowing morning. It is not meant by this, however, that the meat should e: be allowed to become frozen. Many Sl good farmers cut the bodies into n rough pieces very soon after the hog a is dressed: if the day has been warm k and the probability is that the. night *! will also be warm, it is usually wise 0 to do this especially with large hogs. The writer has found it to be a good b practice to cut up the carcass very a< early the morning following the day onyhich the hogs were killed and immerse the pieces in the brine be- ^ fore the warm part of the day. If L the day following bids fair to be warm it becomes almost necessary !l to put the meat away early the first morning. If the weather, however, a is unusually cold the day following ^ the killing it is probably wise to rub k the pieces of meat with salt and let them stand over one day before plac- b ine them in the brine of salt. ti The Pieces Should be Imniered in a t] Brine Solution. The process of common dry salting is well understood. Many farmers have never used any.other method, but as a rule the meat becomes too dry, hard, and salty. Better si meat can be made by other methods g and the danger of loss is, reduced p< probably 50 per cent. Probably the best results?or, at least the best . , , . m results ever secured by the-writer? .. it are secured when the. meat is ini- ^ mersed in the following brine solu- . di tion: f To each 100 pounds of meat?12 pounds of common salt, three pounds of brown sugar, three ounces of sail- . 1 ) n petre, six gallons of water. 9 tl Ordinary syrup may be used in . place of the sugar. The above articles should all be placed in a ket- P tie and boiled gently for about one hour. Any kind of clean vessel, as an earthen jar or wooden barrel, Pi may be used for holding the brine G and meat; clean syrup barrels are b usually very easily obtained. Ex- g treme care however, should be exer- j. cised to obtain new and thoroughly ^ clean barrels; old and tainted barrels should never be used. After the pieces of meat are neatly trimmed into the proper shape and size they $ should be laid in the barrel with the meat side upfc a heavy weight placed upon them, and the brine poured Ill CU a ueptll nut icab man tv>u intnco 9 above the top piece of meat, If the brine shows signs of becoming ^ "ropy" or tainted the trouble can be usually corrected by removing the meat, dropping in a small amount of ^ common soda, and stirring well, if -n this treatment does not immediately v correct the trouble, the meat should t( be washed, and put down again in G new brine 30 to 40 days* At one q time the writer kept 38 hams of various sizes in a brine for r>2 days. a The small hams were in the brine too j. many days and become somewhat j1 too salty. Fifty-two days are not, however, too long a brine period for the larger hams. e Smoking the Meat. b After the meat has been in the p brine a sufficient length of time it ci should be taken out, hung in tne smokehouse, allowed to drip two /or three days, and the smoke applied. v> Many farmers smoke meat at ir- n regular intervals for 20 to 40 days, n but there is probably nothing gained u by prolonging the period, especially s< if the smokehouse is well made and n the smoke is applied continuously for d a short period. If the smokehouse fl will not hold the smoke, then it is tl necessary to prolong the smoking ii period. When the house is tight and p the fire is Kept burning continuously ii there seems to be no reason why the fi meat should be smoked- more than p three or four days. Corn cobs, hick- si ory chips, and various other woods ( are used for producing the smoke: ti no special or secret virtue accompa- si nies the smoke made by any one par- tl ticular kind of wood.- t< The meat should hang not less tl than spvpn or eisrht fppf from thft e fire. tl Cured Meat Should Be Sacked. a As soon as the meat has been suf- v ficiently smoked the ventilators and P HELD FOR FORGERY. oung White Man is Arrested at i Greenville. Greenville, Jan. 9.?Charged with urging the name of Raymond Jen- t ins, a student at a business col- a ige, Harry Xaylor, a young white c lan of 20 years, was yesterday ar- t ssted by the local police and turned 1 ver to the county authorities, by t horn he was lodged in jail. It c : alleged that Naylor faked a telo- ^ ram to the father of Jenkins at Gas- t )nia, N. C., saying that Jenkins was i trouble and needed $20 imme- 1 iately. a The elder Jenkins, trusting the au- i -lan*!/ ? ?nf tiio moesnpp wirpri a S IVli V1V* CJ VI AAAVWMMQ W| _ slegraphic order for the sum re- i uested and waived identification, e he only obstacle to cashing the or- 1 er being removed by the waiver oi ? lentification, Naylor signed the 1 ame of Raymond Jenkins to the \ rder and was given the $20. it r illed for by the agents of the tele- f raph company. . The father of Raymond Jenkins ( tpected to either hear from his c on again, or expected the young t lan to return home immediately, t nd when he did neither, Mr. Jen- f ins wired to the college, asking I lformation. He was informed by t ne of the officials of that institu- t on that his son had been in no trou- c le^and had wired for no money, s he had about $40 in cash. t The police department was noti- f ed and Naylor was arrested through I lie assistance of Telegraph Agent i egge, who recognized the man on i le street, and afterward identified J im as the sender of the original s slegram signed Raymond Jenkins, 1 nd as the man who cashed the or- t er made payable to Raymond Jen- t ins. i Young Jenkins told the police that s e had run afoul of Naylor some * ;me ago, and that the latter had c *icked him out of $4 or $5. No t liarsre for this alleged prior offense t as made against Naylor. ? I Shooting at Gilbert. \ Lexington, January 11.?The little ( >wn of Gilbert was the scene of a r looking scrape last night. John c healy, a white man, was shot and c ainfully wounded by Cal Taylor, c aother white man, the trouble be- ( tg the outcome of too much liquor, is said. According to the reports c jceived here, Taylor was drunk and i isorderly, and Shealy, acting as a 2 iend, and in an effort to get Taylor s > go home, assisted him to his bug- c y. After managing to get Taylor \ l his buggy it is said that Shealy t lrned to go away, vwhen Taylor s tew a pistol and fired. The ball 1 assed through his left hand and t enetrated the stomach, causing a z ainful, but not dangerous wound. z Sheriff Miller was notified by iele- i hone and he lost no time in going to ilbert. Taylor was captured and rought to jail. Both Taylor and . healy are married men. Taylor will kely be tried at the general sessions :>urt which convenes to-morrow. DEATH IS EXPLAINED. J / 1 mall Boy Admits That He Shot Man in Newberry. Newberry, Jan. 11.?Hayes Glad ey, a negro, was found dead, tne ? 2nd of December, in a field near laybinton, having been shot k and ( illed with a shotgun. The magis- . *ate of the neighborhood held an in- , uest, and the jury found he came to ^ is death by a gunshot wound at the 1 ands of some person unknown. Deelopments since led Sheriff Blease , 5 believe that two negro boys, 1 eorge Eddison and Andrew j regory, aged 13 and 12, knew some- , ling about it, and so he had them ^ rrested yesterday and brought to ail. To-day Eddison confessed that ( e killed Gladney, and Gregory conrmed the confession. Eddison says , lat he was shooting at something Ise and hit Gladney by accident, j ut that he kept silent about it, and , < ersuaded the other boy to do so, be- , ause they were afraid. -indows should be opened and the 'arm air permitted to escape. The J lajority of farmers permit the cured leat to hang in the' smokehouse, nprotected from flies and other in- ' acts, during the spring and summer J lonths. This is an unwise thing to l o, unless the house has a cement oor, is dark, and all openings are < lioroughly protected by wire screenlg. It should be taken down and 1 repared. for the sumer season. The 1 idividual pieces of meat should be < rst wrapped closely with old news- apers or wrapping paper. They J tiould then be placed in strong sacks ( flour sacks will do) and each bag * ightly tied at the top. The sacks 1 liould then be hung exactly where i hey are to stay until taken down < } be eaten or sold, and painted on t iie outside with a solution so as to i xclude all flies and "skippers." A ( trick paste of ordinary lime, glue, s nd water will answer the purpose * ery well.?Prof. Dan T. Gray in 1 rogressive Farmer. i COTTON GRADE PLAN. government Tests Show That Texas Lost $40,000,000 on Cotton Experiments which were ordered )y congress at the Suggestion of Senitor E. D. Smith to determine the lifference in spinning value between he various standard cotton grades, i lave proceeded far enough to sus ain the senator's theory that this lifference is by no means so great as vould be thought from the price paid he producer of the staple. Out ,of this investigation, which is )eing made by the department of igriculture under the supervision of 1 ts cotton expert, Dr. N. A. Cobb, remits are accruing which will be of ital importance to the cotton growers of the South. The exoeriments / lave been carried on with a total of tbout 1 20 bales, half of eastern and lalf of western upland cotton, which vas put through the Danville, Va., nills under the regular process used or commercial cotton. Parallel tests were made at the Venison Agricultural and Methanical ? :ollege in South Carolina, and addi- | ional checks will be obtained from g echnical laboratories elsewhere be- | ore a final report is published'. | Cnough has been learned from the ? ests already accomplished to justify | he following semi-official statement. | >f their significance: | 'Tt has been shown conclusively % hat much of the lower grade cotton, 8 or which a decidedly lower price is S mid, works into just as good yarn J md fabric as slightly more expensive | grades. In the case of Texas this | ear much of the cotton was badly ? itained and weathered in the held. | )ut these experiments have shown j hat the bleaching process used in f he mills is effective and cheap and | las no appreciable effect on the | itrength of the yarn." $ At a hearing before the house | committee on agriculture experts for . | lie department recently said that S his stained and'weathered cotton in | Texas has sold for 6 or 7 cents a. | lound, when it was intrinsically | vorth 10 to 12 cents a pound, as g lemonstrated by the Daaiville experi- | nents. The total loss to the farmers j )f Texas alone this year on this ac- i jount, one of the experts told the | rommittee, will probably reach $40,- I >00.000. } % J As an object lesson to give practi- i al effect to the outcome (of the spin- ' ling experiments the department or = igriculture will prepare fifty or more T lets of exhibits, showing the grades -l >f cotton handled, the amount of = vaste in each, and the character of lie yarn produced, both before and tfter bleaching. These exhibits will le installed at the various agriculural colleges which are interested; ^ ind with as many cotton exchanges 15 is care to have ?hem' on view as an la lid to the grower. M IS TWO LYNCHED IX FIjORIDA. JS be Vegroes Cliarged With Assault, on White Man Strung Up. pe to Tampa, Fla., January 12.?News ds was received here to-night of a dou- ds ole lynching between here and Mul- ^ Derry at a late hour last night when 1 mob is alleged to have captured F( :wo negroes charged with assault on Ft 1 white man named Colins and C< strung them up to a tree. ^ pj According to meager details of the Drime brought here Lewis Peck and an unknown negro assaulted Collins, supposedly in the belief that he was Bj the man who had testified against Bi ^ | them in a court prosecution. It is alleged they threw a coat over q( Collins's head as he was on his way Ci to see a doctor, and after severely Dj beating him stabbed him several pj times and left him lying on the q.< track, where a train was soon due. H Another negro believed to be impli- ^ :ated is under arrest in Lakeland. , The lynching has stirred the large h aumber of negroes engaged in the L< phosphate fields at Mulberry to a ^ tiigh state of excitement and citizens q{ it Mulberry are going about heavily st irmed. Sa . T1 TILLMAX IS LOOKING WELL. tv >ays He Tlirew Off Dietarv Restric- ex ' or tions and Picked-up. ag Washington, January 12.?There dc ivas much comment to-day at the senate end of the Capitol on the greatly improved health of Senator rillman, as indicated by his robust of ippearance and jovial spirits. Many m: said that the senator - was loking is Setter than he had ever looked since lis serious illness a few years ;*go, ro ind to the correspondent of The ^ \Tews and Courier this assertion ^ seemed to be true. When asked ihe "ause of his decided pickup the sen- ? itor replied mat ne naa cast on uie |h larness of his self-imposed dietary * 'ules during the holidays at Trenton ind had reveler' to his heart's eon:ent in jowl and collards, and all the ?ood eating in South Carolina he ^ould get. However, the senator resumed the dietary harness just a.? soon as he got back to Washington, < :hinking is wise not to overdo ''the gi< lew freedom." Fz P'mmR'S RESOLUTION j| ' || The Best One You 5^ H Can Make is ^ , .1!^ . ? ?T?n 535 "t*? o?' v MAfifW" i s i 35 Next to Postoffice Telephone 69 2^? "The Good to Eat Store" i notice I I The Insurance business of !c Riley fy Copeland ivill not j | \ v , be in any way affected by i| ' M _ the death of Mr. H. H. Cope- M: !| - land. It will be continued % || a$ formerly, and any infor-' > ; || ^ motion in regard to policies, M II etc., can be obtained fjrom r *t ? Mr. J. D. Copeland, Jr., at ||i |, , the store. Thanking you for % | past favors and soliciting a jp ? continuance. h j Riley & Copeland j _ _ and Bad Colds are caused by germs. ; ^ Quick relief take The Giant Grip Germ Killer v 25c an4 50c, and Tablets 25c ' Johnson's ionic TAX NOTICE. n | p , , n - The treasurer's office will be open tV62l uSiSK r the collection of State, county, hool and all other taxes from the t. ?th day of October, 1913 . until the 84 % acres good land near town " ith day of March, 1914, inclusive, limits, dwelling and outbuildings From the first day of January, worth $2,500.00, under wire fence. If J 114, until the 31st day of January, sold promptly will sell at'a sacrifice. >14, a penalty of one per cent, will 333 acres 7 miles from town; dwel1i added to all unpaid taxes. From iing worth $2,500; timber enough to e 1st day of February, 1914, until pay f0r property and some to spare. e 28th day of February, 1914, a Prices and terms right. Must be sold . ^ ^ malty of 2 per cent, will be added at once. See me quick or you "&ill be v all unpaid taxes. From the 1st too late. >v' nf ivit' ^ninjiftv nft7 Modern two-story dwelling in the 'J. O--V-5 ly of March, 1914, a penalty of 7 . f 'R h Drices and terms ,r cent, will be addea to all unpaid Jgg ? M. Wfth the new railroad coming in now is the %; THE LEVY. time to buy city property. >r State Purposes 5% mills county purposes .5% mills M M (.iKAHAM ' institutional school tax....3 mills * * *** ; ir public schools 1 mill ???? ir roads % mill ?? f, >.., . "7^7 min, O- MO733 DICKINSON Total 10 % mills INSUR A*N pE AGENT ^ MM SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. j k : imberg, No. 14 $ mills Will Write Anything [ innakers^No, 12 3 mills _ . , T. lord's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Fipev Accident, Li*. ear Pond, Mo. 19 2 mills bibty, Casualty, In the >lston, No. 18 2 mills strongest and most re- *Vjffie Creek, No. 17 .....2 mills - liable companies. -v vt?. 01 ii \L millH _ 511JU1U1IV, iVU. - I. hrhardt, No. 22 9 mills My Motto: "Buy What I Need ishpond. No. 5 2 mills in Bain berg, and Prom Those Dvan, No. 11 4 mills Who Patronize Me " utto, No. 6 , 2 mills FatPOn,ze Me* y &g8j ampton, No. 3 2 mills 'Phone 10-L, or atX Oil Mill eyward, No. 24 2 mills . opewell, No. 1 3 mills BAMBERG, S. C. unter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills jes. No. 23 ......J 4 mills id way, No. 2 2 mills FRANCIS F. CARROLL ik Grove, No. 20 2 mills aTr K, ~i m!!!f Attorney-at-Law , .John s, No. 10 2 mills / , .v ilem, No. 9 3 mills Office in Hoffman Building ?ree Mile, No. 4 2 mills . :v All persons between the ages of GENERAL PRACTICE. enty-one and sixty years of age, ramrrrt <i n . 51 cept Confederate soldiers and sail- BAMlsLlUi,, B? U. _ s, who are exempt at 50 years of ? , . M ;e, are liable to a poll tax of one portable and stationary Capitation dog tax 50 cents. Bfl BB I AI ^ All persons who were 21 years of Hi BBfl B/ fl B^B ;e on or before the 1st day of Jan- B IH Vfl B IH JH try, 1913 are liable to a poll tax B^ BH BB fl IB B H one dollar,*and all who have not HB BV AH B Bl flH BH ade returns to the Auditor, are relested to do so on or before the AND BOILERS 2~- t of January, 1914. I will receive the commutation Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injecad tax of two ($2.00) dollars from tors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood e 15th day of October, 1913, until Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, e 1st day of March, 1914. Belting, Gasoline Engines G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. large stock 1 TQMRAlyD 'IRE INSURANCE Foundry< Machine, Boiler Works, A"J-< Supply Store. yl Old Line Companies atousta. oa. J . r e a?. COLDS & LaGRIPPE < J U? 1 A V/JLil\? i-ici. ^ ^ ? _ ? . 5 or 6 doses 666 will break * bamberg, s. c. any cf chills & Fever, Colds Sale stables, horses and males, bug- ?HLa?/ipP^ ,* "? ?", ^ 5s and harness, rizer & mo ye, better than Calomd and does not lirfax, s. c. *ripe or sicken. Price 25c.? ' ties