Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-14
One Way to Iarket Pork.

the following hints to his patrons, in the
columns of the Courier Journal:
In cutting your hams don't fail to leave
the rump and tail on the hams-it will
then weigh more and actually bring three
cents a pound less than one properly
trimmed. Or, better still, make what IS
called the long cut" or English ham,
which comprises the entire length of the
hog including the toes. This style will
bring within ten cents pound of our city
cut, and pay the dealer well for trimming
them. In trimming shoulders always
leave the ears on, for they not only in
crease the weight, but will make the
shoulders bring you about three cents a
pound less than if they were trimmed as
they should be.
Your clear sides should be skinned the
lean all taken out to make sausage for
home consumption. By this trick, which is
difficult to detect especially if sides are
from mast fed hogs and almost transparent,
you can make your own sausage, and sell
your meat at discount Of three cents a
Pound.
By no means neglect to put ashes on
your meat, the blacker the better. Such
meat looks so bright and cleaa and will
always bring within four cents pound of
city cured.
And last, but not least, as it indicates
prudence and good judgment, let me adj,
wise my farmer friends to keep their bacon
until it gets nell Skippered, 1t then looks
ljpely and will weigh little more, though
it will not bring within ten cents pound
of meat without shippers. The advantage
of handling this kind of meat is, that if
the market should not be active you may
be sure the meat will be. Pack your meat
in salt and put it in dry goods boxes, let it
lie on the levee or at the depot, exposed to
the sun, for two days, and then ship it,
with instructions to your merchant to sell
it for the highest price he can get, having
in your mind the outside newspaper quota
tions for choice meat in new casks. If
your merchant does not get you these
quotations, then demand of him the diff
ference, and if he refuses to pay quit
him at once and find some one that will do
you justice. If it should happen at the
close of your account that a little balance
be due the merchant, write him to square
it with that difference. This will be fair
and right, and doubtless, will increase your
reputation as sharp, and shrewd business
man.
In feeding your hogs for the fall market,
don't fail to put your peach orchard boars
into the drove at least once month be-
fore your hogs are weighed by this means
you will add to the weight of your hogs,
and they will thereby only be subject to
discount of eighty to one hundred
pounds per hog. Who cares for thiss
THE Rev. VIM H. Miburn, the |" blind
preacher" has recently returned to New
York, after sixteen months residence
abroad, whittier he went for the purpose
of submitting to an operation for sight, by
the eminent Graefe of Berlin. The ex-
| pertinent was not a success. Mr. Milburn,
during his absence, has prepared two new
lectures" What Blind Man Saw in
Paris, and "Blind Mans Experience in
Search of Sight'-which he proposes to
/ deliver during the coming lecture season.
| A CONVICT was recently released at Cay
enne, that had passed there twenty five
wears. When he returned to France he
spent a great deal Of money, which at
tracted the attention Of the police. He was
arrested, and it was found that he had
I found the money Of the man whom he
had murdered quarter of century ago,
in the same place where he had buried it
at that time,
The peach orchards in Delaware oc-
cupy from 40 to 1000 acres each, and
where the trees are from six to eight years
Old, from three to four bushels Of
peaches will be gathered in season from
each, but the general average is about two
bushels, which, in season like the present,
will realize from three to three and half
million dollars.