The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-03-12
THR Sage OF
POsSUM FORK
OFFERS some TIMELY COUNSEL As TO
HOG and HOMINY and OTHER
IMPORTANT MATTERS.

times We have hog and hominy. but
this last year has been disastsous
year for the hogs. Great numbers
have died Of cholera and no one
seems to know cure. But | have
run up with two or three men who
say that tar is "a preventive. Mr.
Gabe Ellis, down next to Yawhanna,
and Mr. Gordon Evans, both say they
do not lose any hogs, while their
neighbors all around them suffer
great losses. They keep the tar
about the feeding place and rub
some on the hogs and put it about
and in the feed tsoughs and some
times in the feed; the hogs sleep to-
gether and tar one another. | was
told of two other men who had the
same good results from the use of
tar. Now tar is abundant in every
piece of fat lightwood. but you can
hardly find a man who has any. |
remember what wheeing cough a
sick hog has, aud tar Is good for .
cough, land is uuderestimated because
of its abundance in the South. Any
body can run quart or two in a
short time. Just scoop out slant
ing hole in the ground, by the side
of ditch to hold peck i. or more
splinters of very fat Iightwood, bore
a slanting hole through into the eide
of the ditch, and set an old tin
bucket to catch the tar. Now hunt
up some old fat piece of stove iron
or take the iron back some use in
the house chimney, II or 18 inches
square and lay it fat on top of the
hole full of fat spliuters, bank
around the edges, so the fire can't
get to the lighlwood, and build a
slow fire on the naked iron, aud you
will have as nice tar as anybody.
Or if You can pick up an old pot and
fill it with fat splinters, and turn it
up side down on the aforesaid scoop
ed out hole full of fat splinters,
bank around the edges and build
your slow fire on it and the tar will
soon be steamed out. Well, so much
for the hog, now for the hominy.
Your correspondent, S o Eaddy,
has drawn attention to the necessity
of planting good seed,and Rev II E
James has told how to destroy dis
ease germs by scalding the seed
corn, and now let's tar the seed corn
to keep insects and birds from eating
it. OF course you would not stir
the corn in the raw tar, but take Mr.
James boiling water in a bucket
and stir IN about teacuP of tar, SAY
for two minutes, in say three quarts
of boiling water, then "douse" in
four or five quarts of shelled seed
corn and stir vigorously one minute
and turn out the whole fix on a hard
place in the yard where there Is
slant enough to let the water run off
and throw on the corn say quart
of dry dirt from under the house
and rub like cotton seed with the
hands until all sickness is gone.
Only thin film of tar will be on
each grain, andit will not stick to
the hands so much, so don't be timd
about it. Plant as usual-and tell
the crows to try grain. l always
put two or more grains in hill and
thin to stand, leaving the most
vigorous plant, for a large percent
age of the grains will produce weak
lY plants, and you can take choice of
stalks, which means great deal and
pays ten times over Cor the work of
thinning out.
Now don't forget the tar for the
hog, tar for the hominy and give the
children tar water for the grip.
Yes, run the tar and keep it on
hand; it is handy and cheap for a
lot of utilities, and I want to draw
your attention to one other import.
ant point the very next time I sign
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