Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-09

be thoroughly dry. Unless this is true
the joints can not be made tight as
they mast necessarily be Any openings
Cr creyivss G"Jur.s.'. .y. s.' laa l--s"-
Iat,mg value Of tn. house aad make tire
use Of more ice necessary. since the
ice ,s the cosby c.cm.rt ia tnc process
Of curing meat, It's conservation is very
imt rLaht AMI !, T.. better 10 ...riu - 1t
lie more money III building proper
house than to lescsn the cost by few
dollars and fah to have L properly IN
sulated
As ALREADY indicated, In, outer walls
may run horizontally @lo ship lap may
be used for coNeIiIs them. The build
ing paper should be tapped 10 the eX-
tent OF four inches at the edges. Next
put 1N3'& vertically - inches apart ana
then put on an outer layer Of ship lap.
The inside wall is the same as the out
side wall except that the last or inside
part Of the wall is matched flooring
which should be painted or Vanished,
but not whitewashed or creosoted. The
ceiling and floor may be constructed
the same as the walls. In building the
ice rack use 2x6's spaced inches apart.
The floors Of the ice chamber should
he made Of corrugated iron or some
other subs tantial material, and they
should be sloped to one end so as to
cat Itch the drip from the ice anu carry
the water away through the drain pipe.
ventilator must be provided inches
from back wall This is very impor-
tant matter and one that might be over
looked to the diSadyaNtc%t q tut owner.
Remember that while meat is being
cured it must be kept at uniform tenn
Derature This is a matter which few
people seem to fully appreciate at its
face value. The meat must not be al
lowed to freeze. Keen it at temper
ature as near forty degrees as posi-
BILE. AS the ice mclts il must be re-
placed until the meat is thoroughly
chilled Allowing the lcs;o ali melt and
the temperature TO rise would be very
unfortunate and probably result in the
destruction Of the meat This has hap
pened in a number of cases, hence the
Importance of emphasizing the matter
at this time. Remember that an ice
house will not cure meat unless il is
used with intelli gCnce.
\ house Of the size indicated in this
article will hold 5000 pounds of pork
at a time, ana of course may be en-
larged If it is desired to cure more
meat than this at a time. That such
structures have proven effective IS th'
testimony of many VINO have secured
plans from the state college of agricul-
ture. One farmer indicated to the
writer that his meat curing house paid
for itself the first year. and he said
further that he thought it Was good foI
twenty-five years longer. This same
gentleman had lost much meat in at
tempting to cure it in previous years
without the use of a meat curing house.
He said that the house had cost him
about $3.50, but that he would not &v
without a similar one if it cost him sew
eral times that amount of money. Plans
and specifications may be secured free
of cost on application to the state col
lege of agriculture, Athens, Ga.
FEEDING VALUE or PEANUTS.
X. l.. w, Macon, Ga, writes: | would
like TO know the feeding value of Georgia
raised peanuts also Of the. oil th" bulls aud
vines and the meal. I would also like TO
know the value Of soy beans and velvet
beans when ground and mixed as compared
with similar fOodstuffs now in use.
Peanuts stand high as a human and
animal food. Peanuts with the hulls
contain 1874 per cent digestible protein,
1873 per cent digeStible carbohydrates
and 1926 per cent fat. Peanuts, as you
probably know yield from seventy 10
eighty gallons of oil when crushed This
oil is of the very highest quality, equal
in fact to that of the best olive oil
or cottonseed oil. Peanut oil may be
made to take the place in commercial
Industries of any purpose to which
olive oil or cottonseed oil is adapted.
Peanut vines contain a good deal of
animal food. They compare very favor
ably in this respect with clover hay. AS
it rs difficult to cut them and keep
them free from dust. they should only
be fed in limited quantities to work
stock, certainly unless they are moisten-
ed with water before they are fed. Even
then peanut hay should not be fed by
itself to this class of stock, but in com
bination with some form of roughago
running lower in digestible protein. Pea
nut hullS, as a rule, are combined
with the. cake when oil is extracted and
this is very good way to handle this
product. The hulls in themselves con-
tain very little plant food. In this re
spect they rank but little if any aboTc
cottonseed hulls. We have fed peanu,
meal to hogs and cattle on our college
farm with excellent results. 1t is on
of the most valuable concentrates know.
at the disposal of Georgia farmers.
Soy beans, of course, run high in O.
gestible protein and fat They conta:
less oil than peanuts, but somewEa'
more protein. Velvet beans contain abo,-
the same amount of protein as peanut
but materially less oil. Velvet beans