Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-23

have two receptacles so that the meats
may be transferred from one to the
other at each rubbing. After the last
rubbing, let the meat lay for about ten
days, then il should be ready TO smoke
Larger cuts require more time to cure.
Curing by this method should be done
in a cool, moist place.
Pork sausage should be made from
clean, fresh pork only. One pound of
fat to three pounds lean is about the
right proportion. Mix fat and lean be-
fore chopping. Put the meat through
the cutter twice At the second grinS-
ing add the seasoning: One ounce of
fine salt, one-half ounce ground black
pepper. one-half ounce powdered sage
to each four pounds of meat. To pre-
serve the red color of the meat add a
small amount of salt-petre
Sausage for immediate use may be
packed in crooks or stone jars. n good
method for preserving sausage consists
of packing tightly in jars or crooks than
baking in an oven until sufficient fat
has benn melted out to form covering
of one-fourth inch thick over the top.
The package is then covered with a
cloth over which melted paraffin is
poured to close the pores of the cloth.
If kept in a cool place, sausage thus
preserved may be kept fresh for several
months.
Many farmers prefer to stuff sap-
sage in castings. These may be made
from the small intestines of the hogs,
or muslin may be made into long bags
about three inches in diameter. Stuffed
sausage may be preserved IN brine and
smoked, or if put in muslin bags, may
be dipped in melted paraffin and hung
in dry cool place.
SPRAYING PEACHES FOR SAN JOSE
SCALE.
R. H., cambridge, Ca, writes: I would
like to snow what to do with young peach
trees. some of them have little white
meaIy specks all over them, and then dry
up and lie.
We Judge from what you say that
your peach trees are suffering from an
infestation by the San Jose scale. For
the destruction of this pest there is
nothing you can use to better advantage
than the lime-sulphur solution diluted
to test AS degrees Beaume. Apply this
spray while the trees are still dormant. In
your section of the state the application
should be made in January or certainly
early in February. The concentrated
lime-sulphur solution may be made as
follows. Take forty pounds of fresh
unslaked lime and mix it with so pounds
of flowers of sulphur. Add so gallons
of water and boil from so to so minutes,
AS some of the water will be lost in
boiling add enough to bring the amount
up to so gallons. This will make from
400 TO 400 pounds of material for dormant
spraying, and 1900 to 1000 gallons or
summer spraying. In making the lime
sulphur at home, there is bound to be
some variation in the solution. This
can be corrected by diluting with wa
ter To determine the proper amount
of dilution a hydrometer should be used.
These read from to Sc degrees Beaume
or from 1000 to 1880 specific gravity.
These instruments can generally be OBJ
tanned through local drug stores at a
cost of from rs cents to 81 apiece. Where
they can not be obtained one gallon of
homemade concentrated lime-sulph ar
should he diluted with six or seven
gallons of water for dormant spraying
You should go over your peach trees
and examine them carefully and remove
and destroy all borers with a knife or
sharp wire of sufficient size to permit
its incision into hole made by borer.
VELVET BEANS AS A SOURCE OF
FERTILITY.
/ H. r. WaynesborO, Ca, writes what
do you think of 900 pounds of 1G ner cent
acid and 1000 pounds Of velvet bean meal
as a fertilizer for corn and cotton and other
crOuS? Gan 80 $50 THIS jU~i a. go" '',"'
an s-2-2 or e-2-sf
A ton of velvet bean meal without the
hulls will contain about so pounds of