Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-08-01
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side down. Cover with trash, corn
stalks and dirt, and leave a little
space for ventilation at the top, and
they viii keep very we'll.
Make Some Saucr Kruut,
TO make good sauer kraut, pull
the outer leaves OFF OF good, firm
cabbage, wash and slice into slaw
from quarter to an eighth of an
inch thick Put some salt in the bot
lom OF barrel. Then put in Il four
inch layer of slaw and cover with
salt, usins about three quarts Of salt
to each 20 gallons of slaw. Then
press down until the juice Just ap-
pears on top, and start another slaw
layer. When the barrel is full, cover
with small barrel heard or board
that misses the sides of the barrel.
and put a weight on it.
sugar Curing Pork.
TO sugar cure pork, make brine
az follows For each 100 pounds of
meat use 4 pounds OF brown sugar or
molasses, ounces Of saltpeter, and
8 pounds of salt. Pour in four gal
Ions OF water that has been boiled
and allowed to cool. Cool the meat
by packing it in crushed ice for about
"a hours, and then put in the brine.
1t will take between 80 and 40 days
for small cuts to cure, and as high as
SO days for large cuts. Smoke in the
usual way with hardwood after re-
moving from the brine. This will
produce an excellent quality Of cured
pork.
TO Prevent Solellcad.
TO prevent sorehead in poultry,
give about heaping tablespoonful Of
salts to each dozen hens day, either
in q soft mash or in their drinking
water. Then, in addition, use about
teaspoonful of sulphur in their
mash, dry, about two days in the
week. Never give sulphur during
rainy weather. 1t will make the
hens stiff in the joints. Sulphur and
salts, given in this manner, are al
most sure preventatives Of sorehead.
Soft Eggs.
Wheo Lhe hens lay soft eggs, see
that they set an abundance of good
green stnff, such as cabbage, lettuce.
clover, Or rye. Give them lime iii
some form. too-old plaster or
ground oyster shells You will then
.ayc lttN@ trouble along this line.
Getting Rid Of Lice.
TGssakrid of lice on hogs, spray or
dip Chem every week with kerosene
emnls This can be made by dis
solving one pound of common soap
in o. gallon of warm water. Then add
one gallon of kerosene oil and mix
thoroughlyt Finally, add three gal
Ions OF hot water and pour into the
dipping vat or spray pump.
no Kill Sprouts.
q generous handful of salt on each
stump. This will do the work.
10 Keep Tomatoes from Firing.
Did you ever try the oat straw
remedy to keep tomatoes and beans
from, firing up? Just cover the
ground about the plants with oat
straw to retain moisture, and you
will have no trouble.
Gut Out the Blight.
Keep after blight in your apples.
1t takes time and money to keep
blight cut out Of the trees, but by
carefully, inspecting, and cutting 1t
out whenever found, the disease can
be held in check. 1t should be made
community as we'll as an individual
task.
Pasture for Young Pigs.
The best feeds for producing quick
growth on young pigs after weaving
are the Iegume crops, and juicy graz
ing crops, such as sorghum and Ber-
muda pasture. In the winter season
there Is nothing better than dwarf
Essex rape. A good stand Of oats
and rye makes a splendid pasture.
Peanuts will produce more meat for
given cost than any other crop in
the South, but peanut-fed hogs
should be hardened off on corn be-
fore being gent to market. Artichokes
and cElfas offer variety to the ra-
ton, and velvet beans are quite as
good as corn In a field where you are
grazing hogs and cattle together.
With these feeds to draw from, every
Southern farmer ought to make a
success with hogs.