Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10

cial circles You belong to the village
and are part and parcel Of ii.
Perhaps the most unhappy man is the
one who moves from the farm to the
city when he has nothing to do. I'm
less he is a professional man or is
trained for some business ne finds life
very tiresome. There are families who
nave moved to a city with the expecta-
lion of getting into society, as they call
il. They ind generally that they get
INTO such society as they are prepared
or They get little more out of society
an they put in IL SO people living in
the country on good farms. with com
Portable surroundings, should weigh the
advantages of city life before making
move.
Preserving Hams.
This is the season Of the year when
skipper fly deposits eggs on hams
and shoulders. When the weather
warns up the good wife may take down
ham and cut into it and find it pol
luted with shippers. A few of them will
spoil the best ham ever cured. In the
old days one plan was to rub the hams
with wood ashes; others would pack the
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with ashes. Some would wrap in paper
and then tie in bags. All of that would
keep the worms out provided there were
no eggs in the hams. 1t requires much
washing and scrubbing TO clean a ham
which has been put in ashes.
A cleaner and more attractive way is
to keep hams and shoulders in screened
boxes or a compartment of the smoke
house large enough to hold all the meat
you make. If a box is used. stout,
strong frame should be made and the
wire tackled securely around that, bot
tom and top. except one side 10 which
there is screened door. The hams
may be hung to sticks nailed to the
top before the wire is put on. BY using
these screwhooks, which cost about a
cent each, the hams may be hung up.
If a compartment is made on one side
of the smokehouse, make il large enough
to walk in BE sure that there is no
hole for a fly to enter, for they are
apt 10 find way if possible. Hams
may be taken out of pickle or salt and
washed and put al once into these
screened boxes. Or. if the fly has had an
opportunity TO deposit eggs scald hams
and shoulders about two minutes be-
fore putting in the screened Enclosure.
The hot water will kill all the eggs
The smoke will penetrate the screened
wire and preserve the meat This
screened apartment in the smokehouse
makes an admirable place for putting
fresh beef or mutton when you kill dur
ing the summer or fall.
We saw field a few days ago which
had been broken with a two-horse pillow
and narrowed with a cutaway harrow
In it there were about ten carloads of
clods weighing two to eight pounds. 1t
was a hillside which had been in wheat
followed by peas. The land should
have been in good condition but it was
plowed when the clay was wet and then
narrowed after a rain when wet The
clods will evidently be there at gather
ing time. That is the condition of much
land i'm the country. The farmers have
complained of tough, unmanageable
land, and when they plowed it too wet
they injured it for the whole season.
1t is better to take time and prepare
land thoroughly, even if planting is
postponed a week or ten days We
knew a farmer long ago before the
use of guano was known, who said he
would not let a neighbor come in and
plant his cotton crop for nothing be-
fore the first of May. If he finished by
the tenth of May ne considered that ne
was early enough and he always noticed
that he had cleaner crops and made
more cotton to the acre than his neigh
hors. The reason of that was the thor
ough preparation of his land and he
generally killed the first crop of grass
and weeds when he prepared his land
in May whereas the grass would get
ahead of cotton planted three or four
weeks earlier
Corn and cotton come up and grow
of better when planted late We saw
some corn planted a few years ago the
last days of March April was a cold
month, with several light frosts. The
corn never did much good although fer
tilted for a fine crop. You could not
induce that farmer now to plant
crop of corn until the April frosts are
over Five acres well prepared. all the
ciods broken and planted in corn or
cotton when the ground is warm enough
10 bring up the seeds in a few days
will make 80 per cent more than ear
Iier planting on poorly prepared land