The Pulaskian., 1921-04-14
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 can go to work for me and will give you dollar a day and board" Yust keep the boards, , said the for eigner, and give me the dollar day. Aye don't need any boards ?
 J. K. Winkler lives at the foot of the last of the 0zarks. There is not another hill between it and the Gulf of Mexico. During the Civil War, while boy, he went to the gulf in wagon with two yokes of oxe There were six boys and one man with OK teams and they had some times. They got into sand which made the oxen's feet sore and had to have them shod. The wagons av- eraged between 900 lbs. and thou sand each, but he only had 800 lbs. The salt cost one dollar a h., Con- federate money. They had more money than anything else in those days, but could not buy much with it. We think salt is high now at three to four cents pound.
 A farmer told me he had 25 chick ems which laid g dozen eggs in one month last winter, which sold for S2080 at 65c a dozen. Cost $2.70 to feed; profit, s18.l0.
 
 How to Cure Ham.
 Mr. Winkler cures his meat as fol- lows:
 Ten pounds of brown sugar, one pound black pepper, one half pound cayenne pepper, one-half pound salt petre, one quarter pound borax and 20 pounds salt, mix thoroughly. This will be sufficient for 1,000 pounds of meat. Rub this thorough ly on the meat and lay 1t in the salt and cover with salt. Let it remain in the salt six weeks. Then take it up and wash 1t clean in warm water, hang it up and smoke with hickory wood little every day for three weeks until 1t turns a straw brown. Bugs will never get in 1t. Kill the hogs just after the full moon for brown gravy. His hams are certain ly fine.
 Mir. Winkler says there will be no bitter mast, red oak, black jack or willow this year, as 1t was all killed last year, as that mast is made from the blooms of last year instead of this year. On the other hand, sweet mast, hickory, white oak, overcup and post oak are made from the blooms of this year.
 l started for Little Rock Tuesday after the big frost and freeze, through the big pasture. l tried a new route further south than I have been go ing, after crossing Wilhite branch 1 tried to keep on top of ridge, but the water looked so pretty down in a gulch that l had to go down to look at it. kept up 1t until 1 came to a deep hole of green water beneath lovely little water fall and surround ed by beautiful ferns knee high. There was also dogwood full of big white flowers. The dogwood blooms when they first appear are small and green, but they keep grow ing larger and winter until full grown. In my last letter I said that they were then small and 1t looked like small crop of corn, but they have continued to grow until now they are so white and large that 1 hope we will have good corn crop. A little further on and high up the right bank of the stream was a patch of reed grass, which indicates ever living water. Examining 1t closer 1 saw that there was a lot of large grass. about one-quarter inch in diameter and three feet high. There was fine spring of water coming out from under solid rock bluff. continued until I reached the top of what appeared ridge. When l got up there 1 found 1 was on the edge of a fine. nearly level, piece of land which drained away from me. It extended to the foot of old Messy mountain, and was kind of saddle which connected old Messy with the next mountain. This was high up and large enough for a good sized farm, and from the looks of the larne number of hin nina sf,,r,,rs