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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Selling Pigs to Buy Pork
Is Bad Business and
Can Be Easily Avoided
What is more inviting to a farmer
than to come in from the barn on
a cold, blustery winter morning to
find on his breakfast table a dish
well laden with home-cured ham,
juicy, tender, and smoking hot? Why
do not more farmers convert their
crop of summer pigs into meat for
their own use instead of selling It
on the market and buying cured
meats and high-priced pork products?
There Is profit in the transaction,
for the dealer and for the packer,
but none for the farmer, who be
sides sacrificing profit has also given
away one of his most valuable privi
leges—that of growing and prepar
ing his own food products.
Turn Wastes Into Profit
Any farm will support a few pigs.
The waste of the farm may be profit
ably converted into a valuable food
product through the agency of a few
young porkers. If more pigs are
raised and more pork cured than
can be consumed at home there is
always opportunity for its sale
among the neighbors.
A great many farmers who raise
pigs and feel that the expense of
curing hams and preparing pork pro
ducts is too great, but some of the
best results are secured through the
use of inexpensive supplies and
equipment. The tools and equip
ment necessary for killing and cut
ting up a pig are: A straight 8-
inch sticking knife, a cutting knife,
a bell-shaped scraper, a meat saw,
a hog hook and gambrel, and an old
barrel for scalding.
Many farms have an outbuilding
while othecs have regular brick
smokehouses in which the hams,
shoulders, and bacons may be hung
and smoked. A very Satisfactory
smokehouse can be constructed as
shown in the accompanying sketch.
For a few pigs such small equipment
is ample, but w’here many are to be
killed and cured the equipment will
need to be enlarged so that all the
meat of a single killing can be cured
at once.
The smoking process not only
helps to preserve the meat but also
imparts a very delicate and desirable
flavor which can not be obtained in
any other way.
The meat for smoking, if brine
cured, should be taken from the
brine, soaked in water for half an
hour, washed, and hung in the smoke
house to drain. It should dry for
24 hours before the fire is started.
Hang the meat at a distance from
the fire so it will warm up gradually
and not become too hot. Take care
that the pieces do not touch one an
other.
Expensive Hen House
Is Unnecessary, Yet
Proper Type Pays Well
Comfortably housed hens have
better health, are more vigorous, and
lay more eggs than those, which
must live in incommodious quarters,
says poultry specialists of the United
States department of agriculture.
Comfort in the poultry house is nat
necessarily synonymous with
pense, but thought and care must
be given to the quarters which the
birds occupy, or the flock will not
“pay for its keep.”
Poultry House Requisites
Poultry houses or other buildings
where fowls are kept should be dry,
well-ventilated, free from drafts,
with plenty of sunshine and room
enough to allow the birds to move
about w’ith freedom and comfort.
These are necessary features, in fact
much more important than the kind
or style of building used, if the
fowls are to be kept healthy, vigor
ous. and productive.
If a new house is to be built, it
should be located, if possible, on high
or sloping ground and always on dry
well-drained soil. Wet or damp
ground means a damp house, and a
damp house not only means a cold
one but invites sickness and disease.
Never build a house in a hollow,
as water and cold air settle in low
places and should be avoided. Have
the house face the south, as it gives
more sunlight for a longer part of
the day, especially in winter when
sunlight is necessary for the com
fort of the birds. It also makes the
house warmer, drier, and more cheer
ful, and adds to the productiveness
of the flock.
The poultry house should be con
venient. substantial, and inexpensive.
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For fuel, use green hickory, maplb,
or any hard wood. Never use
resinous wood. The time required
to smoke a lot of meat is from 36
to 4 8 hours, but a slower and longer
smoking is desirable if the meat is
to be kept for a long time.
When the smoking process is com
plete the meat should be allowed to
cool and then be wrapped and stored.
It should first be wrapped in heavy
paper and then put into muslin sacks.
In tying the top of the sack the old
string by which the meat was hung
should be removed and the top of
the bag given a tight fold or double
wrap to keep out insects. The bag
is then brushed with a coating of
yellow wash and the meat hung up
until needed.
Yellow wash sufficient for 100
pounds of smoked meat may be pre
pared from the following recipe:
3 pounds barium sulphate.
.06 pound glue.
.08 pound chrome yellow.
.40 pound flour.
The Smithfield Process
The celebrated Smithfield ham is
like wine, the older the better, and
It requires a different curing process.
Smithfield hams are cured as follows:
The hams are placed in a large tray
of Liverpool fine salt, then the flesh
surface is sprinkled with finely
ground crude saltpeter until the
hams are as white as though cov
ered by a moderate frost —or, say,
use 4 to 6 ounces of the powdered
saltpeter to each 100 pounds of green
hams.
After applying the saltpeter, salt
immediately with the Liverpool fine
salt, covering the entire surface well.
Then pack the hams in bulk, but not
in piles more than 3 feet high. In
ordinary weather the hams should
remain in salt in bulk one day for
each pound of meat each ham weighs
—that is, a 10-pound ham should
remain 10 days, and in like propor
tion of time for larger and smaller
sizes. Next wash with tepid water
until the hams art thoroughly clean
ed, and, after partially drying, rub
the entire surface with finely ground
black pepper, after which they should
be hung in the smokehouse and the
important operation of smoking be
gun. The smoking should be done
very gradually and slowly, lasting
30 or 40 days.
After the hams are cured and
smoked they should be repeppered, to
guard against vermin, and then bag
ged. These hams improve ivith age
and are especially fine when one year
old.
Its size or dimensions depend large
ly upon where you live and the num
ber of fowls you wish to keep. On
a farm or where the birds can be out
of doors nearly every day in the year,
about 2% square feet of floor space
per birds in flocks of 20 is enough,
but in a village or city or in a cli
mate where there is a good deal of
snow, making it necessary to con
fine the birds, 4 or 5 square feet per
bird should be allowed.
A very satisfactory house “for a
small flock is 10 feet long, 7 feet
wide, 6 feet 2 inches high in front,
and 4 feet high in back. It will ac
commodate any number of birds up
to 25. The following lumber is re
quired for its construction:
Feet
Description of material. b. m.
2 pieces 4 by 6, 12 feet long,
for sills 48
3 pieces 2 by 4, 14 feet long,
for joists 28
3 pieces 2 by 4, 16 feet long,
for rafters 32
13 pieces, 2 by 4, 12 feet long,
for studs and braces 104
340 square feet %-inch matched
flooring for floors and sides... .340
100 square feet 1-inch sheathing
for the roof 100
Also 1 roll of roofing paper, 2 win
dows, wire for windows, hinges dnd
nails,
I Common boards X inch thick may
be used instead of matched flooring
for inclosing the homse, but in that
battens should be placed over
the cracks. Boards as wide as pos
sible should be used, as the wider
the boards the smaller the 'number of
battens required. The use of battens
is somewhat cheaper and just as sat
isfactory, although the house is not
quite so attractive.
In a climate where the winters are
not exceptionally cold it is prefer
able to cut one large opening in the
front of the house instead of two
windows and the opening between
them, and to cover it with wire net
, ting instead of putting in sash and
■ glass. When this is to be done, cut
the opening lengthwise of the build
ing 7 feet long, 2% feet wide, and 6
inches from the roof. Such an open
ing provides an abundance of venti
lation. fresh air. and sunshine, which
are very necessary. If it is too cold,
a burlap curtain may be made to
put down over the opening at night
and on extremely cold days. A hen
will stand g good deal of cold air,
however, provided the air is dry and
/plenty of ventilation helps to keep
the air dry in the house.
The house may be built on run
ners so it can be moved to fresh
ground occasionally, but if desired
it may be put on a permanent foun
dation and the runners left off.
New Harvesting Plan
Saves Tobacco Growers
More Than a Million
A saving of-from $1,000,000 to $2,-
000,000 has been effected by tobacco
growers of Grantville county, N. C.,
this year by the adoption of a new
method of harvesting combined with
certain modifications in cultural
methods worked out by specialists
of the bureau of plant industry of
the United States department of agri
culture. Other growers of the
bright-tobacco district, of which
Grantville county is the center, are
taking up the idea, and it is expect
ed that before long the practice will
become general there, increasing the
yield of this type 25 to 30 per cent.
This does not include the saving that
results from the effect of the new
method in keeping down destruction
from leaf-apot disease —“wildfire.”
The newWnethod makes “both ends
of the plant work.” Instead of cut
ting the stalks, as has been the gen
eral practice in the “old belt” dis
trict, the leaves are picked from the
stalk as fast as they ripen, work
ing from the lower leaves upward.
Under the old system the lower
leaves would be allowed to remain
on the stalk until the top ones were
ripe, causing a loss’of about 25 per
cent through deterioratioin of the
lower leaves, which make the best
smoking tobacco.
Under the new method is is not
necessary to “top” the plants so low,
making the leaves less subject to
“wildfire.” The total amount of
work is little more, and labor that
otherwise could not be used is made
.available. Children from 10 years
old up can be used for picking the
leaves.
In most communities there Is a
great opportunity for marketing
eggs and poultry by parcel post.
Often this plan gives better satis
faction than the usual method.
FAIR SULTAN, THE THOROUGHBRED POLLED SHORT
HORN BULL, who enjoyed the distinction of being the biggest ani
mal at the Southeastern fair. He weighs 2,600 pounds, is valued
at SIO,OOO, carries a life insurance of $5,000 and is owned by
the Dunreath Farms, of Forrest Hill, Tenn. —Staff photo by Winn.
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Right Kind of Kitchens
Would Make Life Easier
For B,ooo,oooFarm Women
According to a conservative esti
mate, there are about 8,000,000 wom
en working every day, and most of
them many hour, a day, in the farm
kitchens of the United States. Mak
ing these kitchens the well-ordered
workshops they should be, because
of the importance and amount of
work done in them, would result in
lightening and making more enjoy
able the work of a large proportion
of these 8,000,000 women.
The best location for the kitchen
is on a corner of tbe house, in a
wing, of an ell, where there can be
windows on at least two sides, so
as to obtain light from more than
one direction and cross ventilation,
says a revised • farmers’ bulletin is
sued by the United tSates department
of agriculture on the farm kitchen as
a workshop. Whether the chief ex
posure shall be north, east, south, or
west is a matter governed by in
dividual preference and local condi
tions. A kitchen that receives the
morning sun is usually desirably. It
should have a pleasant outlook if
possible.
Points to Be Considered
The kitchen, as well as all other
rooms in the farmhouse, should be
so located with reference to the barn
and other outbuildings that winds
will not bring unpleasant odors or
flies from them. Also, if possible,
it should be in a part of the house
where dust will not be blown through
the open windows and doors from the
road. Seeding bare ground around
the kitchen and making the neces
sary paths of cement or some simi
lar permanent material wil lalso keep
much dust from being blown and
carried into the kitchen as well as
make the view more attractive. A
tidy, well-ordered backyard can not
fail to give pleasure to the workers
Indoors. Undesirable features in the
view can often be cut off by a hedge
or a screen of vines.
While the kitchen is the center
and workshop of the home, its work
also extends more or less to other
parts of the house. In planning or
building a home it is of greatest
importance that the relation of the
kitchen to the other rooms be con
sidered. The kitchen work is most
Young Poultry Experts
Os North Carolina
Win Many Prizes
Boy and girl members of North
Carolina poultry clubs are entering
their birds in competition with pro
fessional poultry raisers, and at the
Hickory fair the club members cap
tured 15 first, 15 second, and 9 third
prizes in the open or professional
classes. Many of these birds were
entered in the open classes at the
Greensboro Fair and at tjie State
fair in Raleigh.
The winners at Hickory in the
open and professional classes were:
Buff Plymouth Rocks: Harry
Arndt, Claremont, cock 3d, hen Ist;
Katie Pharr, Claremont, hen 3d,
cockerel 3d, pullet 2d. and pen Ist;
Gertrude Barringer, Claremont, cock
Ist, hen 2d, pullet Ist and 3d, and
cockerel Ist.
Whie Wyandottes: Philip Lutz,
Newton, cock 2d, hen 3d, cockerel
2d, pullet 2d ‘and 3d.
Single comb Rhode Island Reds:
Ralph Lutz, Newton, pullet, Ist, pen
fowls Ist. Miss Dorothy Yount.
Henry, Rt. No. 1 cockerels Ist and
2d, pullet 3rd.
Single Comb: White Leghorne:
Miss Grace Lutz, Newton, cock 2d,
hen 2d.
Single Comb Brown Leghorns:
Claude Sigmon. Claremont, cockerel
(dark) Ist. Miss Vinnie Lee Mc-
Combs, Catawba, hens Ist, cockerel
(light) Ist.
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns;
Claude Sigmon, Claremont, cock Ist,
hen Ist and 2d.
Andalusians: Oliver Smith, Con
over, hen 2d, cockerel Ist. Hugh A.
Smith, Conover, hen 3d, cockerel 2d
and 3d.
Buff Orpington: Ruth Lutz, New
ton. hen Ist. cockerel 2d.
Toulouse Geese: Shuford Bros.,
Hickory, gander Ist and 2d, goose
Ist and 2d.
Prize Pig Pictures
For South America
Motion pictures depicting the
American swine industry and show
ing all important types of American
swine are being prepared by the
United 1 States department of agri
culture. The titles of the pictures
will be produced in Spanish, as the
film is intended for use in South
America by a representative of the
bureau of markets. South Americans
have shown much interest recently in
live stock breeding as it is practiced
in the United States., Breeders of
pure-bred live stock in this country
have received numerous orders from
South America, and it is expected
that the exhibition of this film will
increase the demand for our breeds
of hogs. Visitors from South Amer
ican countries have intimated that
a film such as is being prepared
would be well received in their coun
tries and would be of great value in
developing the South American swine
industry.
Forage Crop
Lespedeza, also common known as
Japan clover, is one of the most val
uable forage crops for the southeast
ern part of the United States. Ex
cept on alluvial bottom lands, it
rarely makes sufficient 1 growth to
justify being cut for hay; neverthe
less its widespread adaptation to
grazing conditions gives it a value
that is difficult to estimate. Being
a legume, it is valuable for soil im
provement, and also it is relished by
all classes of live stock. The United
States department of agriculture has
a new farmers’ bulletin. No. 1143,
on lespedeza as a forage crop.
closely associated with pantry, the
dining room, and the cellar, wood
shed or other storeroom. These
should be as near and convenient as
possible to the kitchen so that the
journeys which must be made so
often between these rooms will be
short, thus saving steps and much
time.
Using' Kitchen Space
Space should be provided in the
kitchen and within easy access of
the pantry and dining room for the
workable sink, stove, ice box. and
also for several chairs of different
heigths. One should be a rocker,
in which the housewife can rest
while waiting for the water to heat
or for bread to bake. It is also de
sirable that provision be made for
filling the ice box from either the
outside of the house or the entry,
so that the person filling it will not
be obliged to enter the kitchen. This
will save much mopping and clean
ing. Refrigerators can be pur
chased fitted with a door on the
side or back of the ice chamber, and
an opening corresponding to this
door may be cut in the wall of the
house and the chest filled from the
outside. If a* screen is provided the
door may be left open in winter so
that the food may be kept cold with
out Ice. When this is done the win
dow frame should be tightly joined
to the refrigerator, so that cold afr
can not come Into the kitchen as
well.
Wherever possible a separate
room should be provided for laun
dry purposes, and may be combined
with a wash room and place for
those coming in from out of doors
to leave their coats, overalls and
muddy boots and overshoes. Such a
room should be on the shortest and
most direct line of travel from the
barns to the dining room, so that
there will be no temptation to use
the kitchen instead for these pur
poses. Brooms, mops, and other
cleaning equipment may be conven
iently stored in this room or a clos
et leading from it. For sanitarv.
esthetic, and other reasons, a bed
room or bathroom on the ground
floor should not open directly into
the kitchen or the dining room.
Here Are Methods for
Making Allies of Crows
Or Getting Rid of Them
The crow is best known by the
unfavorable reputation it has ac
quired in the corn field, the poultry
yard, and through its attacks on
other crops besides corn. It, how
ever, carries on a warfare against
certain insect pests, including some
of the worst insect enemies of the
farmer. Indiscriminate killing is not
warranted, and even in areas where
the crow is doing harm preventive
measures will- often put a stop to
the nuisance and allow the bird to
continue what good work it may be
doing on insects. Among the pre
ventive measures suggested by the
United States department of agri
culture are:
(1) The use of coal tar or other
deterrents on seed grain.
(2) Scattering grain over fields
where the crop is just sprouting.
(3) Stretching twine about and
across fields from poles stationed
at intervals. A network of
strands is often effective in protecr
ing poultry yards.
(4) The use of frightening devices
and the hanging up of the dead
bodies of crows in conspicuous
places.
In places where more drastic
measures are necessary the killing
of even a few crops will mt.midate
others and these will usually shun
the area for some time. Such pro
cedures include —
(1) The use of poison (strychnine)
in places where this is permitted by
law. Corn and hens’ eggs are the
most effective baits.
(2) Trapping by means of steel
traps, carefully concealed and bait
ed with hens’ eggs.
(3) Destroying nests —a measure
that will most frequently put a stop
to the poultry-raiding activities of
a pair of crows which have their
nest nearby.
(4) Shooting—the hunter being
aided by the use of a crow call,
and, where possible, also by a
mounted owl placed conspicuously
on a pole. Several night attacks by
a number of men equipped with
shotguns will frequently remove ob
jectionable winter roosts.
Scratch \g for Feed
Gives Hens Exercise;
Means More Eggs
During the spring season fowls
having free range get abundant ex
ercise, but during the cold months
many hens suffer from lack of ex
ercise. Close confinement without
exercise is not conducive to getting
the best results from a flock, al
though the feed provided may be the
best, for idle hens soon grow too fat
to lay. It is almost impossible to
give laying hens that are confined too
much exercise.
The fowls may be encouraged to
exercise in various ways, such as
suspending cabbage heads, beets, etc.,
so that the birds have to jump for
them, and scattering grain in the lit
ter. The litter should be from 4 to
8 inches deep, and may consist of
straw (either cut or whole), hay,
leaves, buckwheat hulls, shredded
corn fodder, or any like convenient
material. The hens should be kept
hungry enough so that they will
work diligently all day for the grain
scattered in this litter, say poultry
specialists of the United States de
partment of agriculture. Whenever
the litter becomes damp or soiled it
must be removed and fresh put in.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1920.
Eleven-Year-Old Fancier
Wins Poultry Prizes and
Ships Eggs to Philippines
“How did you happen to ship eggs
to the Philippines?”
“Because they wrote for ’em. I
sent about a bushel basketful. You
might write, too, that the postman
put them in cold storage and not
a one hatched, not a one.”
Mark grinned. He has red hair
that stands straight up in front,
freckles on his nose and cheeks, and
a sparkle in his eyes.
When he was eighteen months old,
he started raising chickens, and at
eleven years he is now a chicken
fancier. He has won first prize at
th© big chicken show’s held in Madi
son Square Garden. New York; and
has made such a name for ills Black
Leghofns that a purchaser in the
Philippines -wrote for eggs—and got
the bushel basket full that the post
man put in cold storage.
“I’ve got five silver cups and I
had seventy-two ribbons,” said Mark,
“but my little sister cut up most of
the red and blue ones to make doll
dresses.”
Mark is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. A. Johnson, of 76 Beecher street.
“I’ve got two younger sisters,” he
said, “and a little brother. He’s
going to be the pigeon man at our
house. He's already getting ready
to raise them.
“You’re the oldest one in the fam
ily, then,” suggested a schoolmate.
“The oldest child,” corrected Mark.
Mark’s father is city warden, but
he himself doesn’t intend to go into
politics.
“I’m saving the money from my
chickens to go to Georgia Tech and
Tech High, both of them,” he said.
"I’m going to be an electrical engi
neer. I’ve got that all planned out.”
“How many chickens have you?”
“I don’t know,” he answered. “I
have five pens. One of the chick
ens that are just out of the shell,
another for the ones that have wing
feathers; a third for the ones about
frying size; a fourth for the grown
ones, and the fifth for my show
chickens.
“They are all Leghorns,” he add-
Alabama Farmers Are
Winning Fight for Fair
Price, Allgood Declares
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—(Special.)—
Praising the farmers of Alabama and
the south for their solidarity in the
movement for the holding of cotton,
M. C. Allgood, state commissioner of
agriculture, has issued a statement
saying the determination of the
farmers to protect themselves had
forced the price of cotton upward
by four cents a pound during the
past few days and predicted that the
continuation of the holding move
ment will result in the establish
ment of the price on a basis which
will yield a return to the farmers.
Commissioner Allgood said the in
crease made during the past ten days
has saved the cotton farmers of the
south sixteen million dollars. He
praised all other interests which are
co-operating in the holding move
ment anr commends creditors of the
farmers for their policy of not forc
ing settlements at this time.
“Farmers in debt for fertilizer
and other necessary expenses incur
red in the production of the crop are
not being pushed for settlement,”
said the statement. “Loans are be
ing extended and every means pos
sible is being brought to bear to
conserve the interests of the farm
er, who in this contest has the sym-
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ed, “Black I like that
kind. They don’t get dirty. I got
three just common chickens, too,
that I use for settin’. About the
time one has finished settin’ and
weaned her chicks, another
starts, and then the third, and* they
just keep on that way.
“I got one rooster who is sev
en years old, and he won fifth prize
last year at Madison Square. His
name’s Grandpa. I’m going to send
soul*, chickens there in January. I
send them to one of Dan’s friends
who lives about thirty miles from
New York and he kinder looks after
them.”
“How much do you make?”
“I make enough to feed ’em and
some profit, I guess.”
“How big is your yard?”
“Well,” he said, ’its just an ordi
nary-sized yard. It ain’t so big and
it ain't so little. We used to have
dogs, too, but I’d rather have chick
ens. But I’ll tell you. raisin’ chick
ens isn’t any easy job.”
When Mark was going to kin
dergarten, he loved chickens, and
he was put in charge of the chick
en yard there. The first year he was
at Lee street school, he brought
chickens to the school agricultural
andpoultry exhibit, and he’s been
winning prizes for his school ever
since. Today he’s in the sixth grade
in ordinary school subjects, but he
could stand a post-graduate exam
ination in chickens.
For nine years he has been win
ning prizes at the big shows in
Madison Square garden; he took a
first prize cup at Allentown, Pa.,
"One of the pullets won first place
at the San Francisco exposition;
in an American egg-laying contest,
open to the world, he took third
place; and today, chickens and
eggs from his backyard are in every
state in the union, some in Canada,
and a bushelful went to the Philip
pines only the postman had to put
them on cold storage.
pathy of the state’s citizenship as a
whole.”
The statement also mentioned that
bankers and business men of other
states are backing the cotton farm
ers and that Texas is practically the
only southern state which has dis
posed of any material portion of the
cotton crop. Texas has been forced
to sell because of crop failures of
other years.
“I take this opportunity to state
to the cotton farmers of Alabama,
that they have every reason in the
world to hold their cotton and not
one reason to sell,” said Commission
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than half won. Let’s stick to it and
make thjs a victory, that will have a
lasting place in the' agricultural his
tory of Alabama and of the south.”
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