Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-15
Save Dollars by Butcherino.

| olduSnCerlHS ana curing more meat
on the farm will help cut the high cost
of living, suggests one member of the
animal husbandry department at Iowa
State College.
One of the large packing plants re-
Gently published the fact that 1t had
earned 49,4 per cent on the common
stock the previous year. This is net,
after preferred dividends and all ex-
penses had been paid. Somebody is
paying this profit and that somebody is
the producer and consumer.
BY observing few simple rules in
regard to Strengthening and curing of
meat, the farmer can not only supply
himself, but also his town neighbors
with meat. Freight expenses, COM
mission, packing profits salary Of
statesmen, express and the wholesale
and retail profits could thus be divided
in the community instead of away
from home. @
That the farmer can soon establish
a select trade which will take all the
meat he can produce has been demon-
strated in Brook county, Georgia,
where the farmers and business mems
clubs, thru a joint committee, have
adopted standard rules for cutting,
trimmings. smoking and labelling hams,
bacon and shoulders. They are unable
to supply the demand.
So instead Of shipping all the hogs
to market this fall. why not slaughter
at home and establish a. home. trade?
If the town does not take all, the meat
on hand. try curing hams, shoulders
and cut mp the trimmings, into sausage
u 4
How One Farmer Cuts Cost -
Ray Redfern. Yarmouth, two years
ago struck upon happy plan. which
cuts his bread bill more than one
third, and he has, practiced it since.
de grinds his own -four. 3s.f e,l a.
II have winter wheat" heSsays, "and
have a feed grinder and engine. Two
years ago / ground some wheat as fine
as my mill would grind it and used it
to make bread. q We all LIKED the
change from white to whole wheat
bread and each year since have ground,
some for change,
THE wheat / grind is run thru the
tanning mill three or -four times,
polished by, being. placed in barrel
ehurn, then famed again, when IT is
ready to. be ground. we find this
-four very satisfactory. for break bak-
ing. The bread Is not as light as II
made with white flour, but more nu-
tritious. t..
,.It Is also cheaper, since sixty
pounds Of wheat makes sixty pounds
of -four at cost of $1.70. while forty
eight pounds OF white flour costs US IS.
Moreover the whole wheat flour goes
further in bread making than white
aeur, asf it. does not require az mu tis,r
aonp to ,thieken the sponge. ~.
Y ZIG you have good wheat IT Is worth
your while to give 1t a trial" ne ad-
yises. r IF the cook gets discouraged
with the first batch OF bread don't give
Il up, but. use more yeast the next time
as it. requires as much again yeast as
for white, -four"
srinknah Buys Valuable Animal.
o n. Brinkman, OF Sheldon, last
week purchased from New York breed
ers Holstein bull which he expects to
head his herd The animal Is a hne
one. His dam produced thirty POUNDS
Of butter in seven days, and his sire's
dam thirty -four pounds In seven days,
which even the unsophisticated vii!
know is a most unusual record. Mr..
Brfnknian has been shipping many ami
mails lately, several to distant points.
He is building up his herd to even
higher quality than 1t has BEEN.
Marathon Husking Record.
Three men on the Harvey Nelson