The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-02-04
BROOKS FARMERS
COLD STORAGE PLANT.
.o1,cAL AND INEXPENSIVE sYs-
TEN OF CURING MEAT.
o,n,b eeoraian's Method of Packing
and Saving Bacon Has Attracted the
Attention of Many People.


Attention of Many People
Tho following article from the Quit
rrae Press on the methods en-
,ored BY farmer of Brooks county
wv .nring his meat will be interesting
a.d nerhaps profitable reading to the
lsrners OF Terrell:
rTbis is the season when the famous
p,ooks county bacon is being prepar-
Il for the market. 1t has been a mat
". of marvel to farmers in colder parts
1.-THE country how people here can
wise enough meat for their own use,
'nob less such quantities for the mar
BOT and product SO excellent that it
.,r,rands better price than the or
,;,orv But the Brooks county farm
:. is somewhat of a captain of industry
h;mseIf. be realizes that the man who
.rrives' in this world is one who over
,omos obstacles. Nature has done a
,,oot deal for the farmer here, but he
hos not depended on nature altogether
and has done few things for him
SELF
uNature, for instance, docs not al
vows nroyide winters cold enough to
nroserye meat here, but the farmer
does not let little thing like that de-
tor him: be builds d refrigerator to
o,re his meats in, So that is how it is
that warm as it is here where there is
mt a flake of snow once in five years,
there is more bacon produced for mar
ket than in any other county IN the
state possibly.
Formerly it was the custom of the
farmers to pack their fresh meat with
salt around blocks of ice in a box or
hogshead, but this is mot d perfect ar
rsngement. The more progressive
ones and the largest producers are
now building cold storage houses or
reirigerators. Mr.. Allen Grower.
one of the Oldest and best farmers ia
the county, was first to adopt this
idea from improved methods In cold
storage. Five or six years ago he
built refrigerator near his smoke
house in place where the sun never
shines on il. The building is SxlO
teet inside and has double wall about
l2inches thick; the walls are OF inch
plank, each one doubled, making each
wall two inches thick. The outer and
inner walls are lined with builders pa
per: the air space between the two
walls is about eight inches; the out
side wall is built straight up, and not
apped as weather boarding is.
"In the middle of the room is zinc
tank which will hold two blocks of ice;
pipe runs from the tank down
through the floor for drainage, its end
going into a basin of water and being
submerged does not admit ny air into
the refrigerator. There is no ventila-
tlOn, bat Mr.. Grower opens the door
usually every morning and lets in the
cold, fresh air The door is a heavy
One lie that of safe, the LAYERS OF 1t
lined with flannel. A thermometer is
used and the temperature is kept even.
Mr. Grower says so degrees Is cold
enough for meat.
Mr.. Growers method of sailing
neat is to salt it while the animal heat
10 it and spread 'it out one night;
men pack il 10 the cold storage, using
much salt that the meat does not
ouch. After three weeks it is taken
uI and spread again for one night
Fad then repacked, using mo re salt
ad let it stay five weeks. 1t is then
Sashed Off in hot water, little borax
~lnkled on it to keep away insects
au hung up to smoke. Sawdust and
Urn cobs are used TO smoke it.
Mr. Grower has a tive-plOw farm,
60 after supplying his farm with
aeon for this year he will sell from
!" TO 81, 900 worth here in Qultman.
els Justly proud of'theirecord he has,
a@ no matter how much he may owe
pe merchants they always owe him
0fe for farm products than he owes
hem.
great many farmers have been to
y Mr. Growers unique cold storage
@ngement, some of them from Flor
:" Among the progressive farmers
We county who have built similar
UOSes are E. j. Young, James Davis,
Ayton Ramsay and Robert Grower,
W 0aulden Bros. are building one on
'eF plantation this week"
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