The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-25

but 1t Ia those districts that raise the
Amontillado and the Manzilla that are
chiefly renowned. That glorious little
sunny Island of Madeira Is celebrated
for It's Madeira, but 1T Is the CANA de
Labos section that produces the MaIm.
sey. and next to 1t come the Sercial
and the Burial. Other choice varieties
are found in the south side of ihe
the sea increases, the quality falls Off.
Italy Is full OF wine; but the choicest
brands are grown In the distrie. Of
M Meea nhe na pes o. and 5hs s are the
Christi. They are grown on the slopes
OF Mount Vesuvius, nearest the sea,
and the most famed of these three is
the Lacryma Christi. The stranger
other two.
So the species, the stream, the food.
the soil, the climate. the elevation even.
enter into the quality of everything
The Pilgrim Fathers did not bring
hogs they brought beer. in preference
to three or -four firkins Of butter"
"Some of the very elect intrusted with
used their positions TO feather their
own nests-much falser to their trusts
than any president of a modern insur-
ance company. The first minister sent
to 1t in 1924 was . factiou nn hy ,e.
shown to have been libertine, guilty
OF gross immortality. The second was
a cross between crank ana an laiol,
and was shipped off In snort order.
One Of the original NUMBER was hunB
for murder"
SO the Pilgrim Fathers did not bring
such useful things as hogs, put such
dainties as beer and murderers IN
embryo.
But the virginia colonists brought
hogs over in the First supply They
incsSased SO rapidly that In eighteen
months three sows gave birth TO sixty
or seventy p sssth Ev ,soa before iba bogs
the animals most disposed to WANDER,
had to be transported to an island IN
the river. until recently known as hog
Island They thence .d eas,ly spr viz
surry, Isle Of Wight, Southampton and
Nansemond
"The Perfect Description of Virginia
published in 1872, says I,,,a THAT har t tSe
woods) innumerable; the mesh pure and
good and bacon none better"
The letter of John Clayton to the
Royal Society. published in 1888, says:
dance: shoats or porkrels are their
general food. and l believe as good as
any westphalla--certainly far exceed
ing our English"
Virginia OF this section the first ham
to gain a national and a world wide
reputation was the Smithfeld ham. 1t
is par excellence the ham OF the word.
Its superiority to any and to all others,
as "the Richmond man knows, is due
to the breed of the hogs, the food they
eat, the forests they roam, the NE
they lead, the age at which they are
killed. the conditions under which they
are fattened. and the art and science
with which the hams are cured NO
art and no science can make croker
hogf.h or pike trout. or Bur
wells Bay oyster Lynnhaven oyster.
No amount of putting can make the
Charlottesville claret the equal OF the
ST. Julien. and all the skies and winds
of California cannot make her cham
payne the equal of the best OF France.
The right bank of the Rhine produces
one kind of wine and the left another:
and the American hook does not eauai.
and cannot be made to equal, either.
The dyes of France are subtler than
those OF England. and the dyes OF the
east end OF London are said to differ
from those of the west end.
Soil. climate water. food. air and
species are things which will tell, and
IL Richmond man undertakes to palm
off a Chicago ham. Mecklenburg ham
or Due West ham as a Smithheld
ham. he is doing something that he
probably knows is misleading-1ust as
misleading as the sale OF ordinary COT
ton tof hss p''aA r s. THOMAS
smi,hneld, Va. July Is. 1910.