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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. Write today tot out Free Book which tells how Full instructions in Fur Grading told in plain and simple language that all can understand. Study our ’’Trappers Manual" - it will teach vou how to tel) if you are getting a square deal in the grading of vour furs, the only book on fur grading ever published. Free to Trappers Also “Fur Facts” and Trappers Supply catalogue. Get full in formation about our “Smoke Pump.” the wonder invention for trappers. A card at letter bring, al! this information FREE Write today- ABRAHAM FUR COMPANY 213 N. Main Street, St. Louis, Mo, 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. HI I il I I il I if I I I i I I J 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. 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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. 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