The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 4, 1917, Page 11

How to Cure Pork First. Take a perfectly clean barrel. The best way is to burn the barrel out then give it a good scrubbing, before packing meat. ey Second. Rub each piece of meat, hams first, well with salt. Then pack in firmly, large pieces first and small pieces last. Put clean boards over the top and weigh down. This can stand a couple of days till brine is ready. Third. For one barrel of meat use 20 pounds salt, 10 pounds best cane sugar, 2 ounces saltpeter. Boil the salt in water, add sugar then boil ten minutes, then dissolve saltpeter in a cup of boiling water. Remove the brine from the fire and add the saltpeter solution. Let the the brine cool over night, then pour over the pork packed in the barrel. Have enough brine so it will cover the meat well. 3 : " Leave the meat from three to four weeks before smoking. You can leave it in brine all winter if you have no good Bmoke house. Meat must not freeze while smoking or standing in brine, neither must it be standing in too warm ® place. When meat is cured in this way it will not be too salty, as the sugar takes the place of salt and gives it a fine flavor. Be sure that you are not using beet sugar in brine as it will become slimy in a couple of weeks and the meat is not so good. Every farmer should cure enough meat to last.all year as it would save a big butcher bill, and we think pork is fine cured in this way, if it is not too fat. Medium sized pigs are best butchered for Jhome use. The fat ones sell better to the butcher. . "The smoke house should be built warm enough 50 meat will not freeze while ‘smoking in February; then it will also keep heat out' in summer. Make smoke once in a while if you think flies might get in. Do not use barrel that meat has been packed in the year before without buining it before using. - - MRS. J. W. COLBY, Voltaire, N. D. ‘souvenir spoon. . service. A Diamond Store for a Generation. You Are Specially Invited To visit The Hagen-Newton Co. while in Fzargo —during the Grain Growers’ Convention. We are anxious to meet our customers " and friends and get better acquainted. You will find our place comfortable and interesting. Bach visitor will be given a North Dakota You will also find several - at. reduced prices; just to make it a special object for you to visit us. Our optical department will be at your Hagen-Newton Co. Jewelers and Opticians FARGO, N. D. EDITED BY MRS. M. M. HOLLIS »A Farm Girls’ and Boys’ Club These are the boys and girls at the Prosper school, winners in hoys’ apd girls’ club work, in a Cass county—district, conducted by the North Dakota Agrlcultu_ra! college. The boys raise corn-and alfalfa and ‘the girls compete in canning, sewing and other household activities. Dear Mrs. Hollis: In answer to your letter I will say I have not always lived on a farm, as I was raised in a small town and at times find the farm life rather lonesome, as one doesn’t have the company on a farm as in town.. But aside from that I think the farm is the best place for one to~ make a good home and there are better chances of having a home and a chance to retire when old age arrives. In the city on a monthly salary there is never anything growing into" money, and at any time your services may not be needed, and then the little money that has been saved soon goes. But if one either is renting or owns a spe@ articles Some Ideas of Country Women . before. small farm there is always something to sell to pay for the things to be bought. I am a woman of 25 years and have a husband five years older, and two children to make things lively. My boy is five and my little girl is three and both are th _ picture of health. . . & I am fortunate in having a power washer. I think we women of today find farm life more of a pleasure than did our mothers. I can do a big two weeks’ washing in two or three hours, where in olden times a week’s wash would take: the greater part of a day, with a tired back at night. Also the cream separator is a great labor saver, over the old milk pans. With less dish washing and the week’s wash done in a couple of hours, we have more time to spend with the raising of poultry. I have a nice flock of chickens this fall and I made about $90 from my turkeys, besides having some for next year. I think I will try raising a few ducks another year. We also have 20 pigs, six head of cattle and 18 head of horses, counting colts. The housewife on the farm has the advantage over the housewife in the city by having lots of fresh eggs, milk, butter, vegetables and meat, and also may kill a chicken, a duck, a turkey or even a goose at any time and still not feel that she is being extravagant, whereas in town all these things must be bought at a very high price. : This is our first year of farming for ourselves, having always worked out We rent a half section in the western part of the county and the build- ings, such as they are, are located on the bank.of a duck.lake, where the hunters this fall got many a duck and a few times a-goose. Aira b This farm belongs to a banker, and my opinion is that the trouble with ‘this country “is that these bankers and moneyed men buy up the land for specu- lation, and they won’t or don’t care to make any improvements on a place so as to help the renter to take an interest in farming the land, and doing good work. ~ This farm could be made into a pretty place but the buildings have been let go to rack and ruin because no one took an interest in it. : My husband was one of the first to pay his money for a Nonpartisan League membership, and we have always thought it money well spent and enjoy reading the paper very much and especially the Woman’s page and the helpful sugges- tions and recipes. I remain - Your friend, MRS. S. C. M. ELEYEN DID YOU SUCCEED? As many have been interested in com- munity Christmas programs and as I have furnished special sample copies to a large number of readers of this page who asked for them, it would be very interesting to hear about these exercises and to know what form they took and with what success they met. Did you think the results were worth the effort and if not what was the matter? The Christmas exercises held in most of the consolidated and in small town schools of the state are really community Christmas programs, in that they include all the children and parents of the neighborhood. Let each community that tried out the community Christmas exercises send the editor a program and a brief“ecount of your celebration. AN EIGHT HOUR LAW FOR WOMEN The Middle Atlantic conference in New York, held recently by the Women’s Trade Union League of New York and Phila- delphia, passed resolutions asking for the passage of an eight-hour work day law for women and a womap's department of the department of labor. The resolution urged all working women to form trade unions for the purpose of demanding an eight-hour day. RHEUMATISM . Acute and chronlc treated at the Fargo ' Sanitarium by the use of Radio Rem, Osteopathy, and Hydriatic treatments. Write for descriptive literature. FARGO SANITARIUM ’ Dr. J. E. Cavanagh 1329 Third Ave. S, Fargo, N. D. A GOOD SCHOOL Thorough Courses, Trained Teachers. Courses. Business, Shorthand, Stenotypy, Civil Sexi:‘vlce and English. REE TUITION to first one hundred students who enroll. Write for information. INTERSTATE BUSINESS COLLEGE 309 Broadway Farge, N. D. . Hellman W. H. Bergherm Props. 0. C. FRESH FROZEN LAKE SUPERIOR HERRING. Taken from the ice cold 5\ waters of Lake Superior. insuring good, clean, pure food. Frozen, packed and shipped direct to you. Herring are becoming one of the most popular winter foods. We guarantee these strictly fresh. We do not handle Cold Stor- age Fish. Prices, 100-lbs. hat in box $4.00; 500- 1bs. or more, $3.75 per 100 lbs :*»0:1bs. (in sacks) $3.50 per 100 Ibs. (in Minn. only) ; 00 TbS; OF.1m6T0. " $3.25 per 100 Ibs. State inspected. Johnson, Hendrickson & Co., Dock B, Two Harbors, Minn. Holiday Goods We have the best things to eat In fish and delicatessen goods in Norwegian and American’ products, Insist on having Midnight Sun Brand This trade mark stands for the hest quality. Ask for them and accept no others. | _Only Norwegian wholesale firm west of Chicago. Bergseth Fish Co. Importers and Wholesalers A Home Institution FARGO and MINOT, N. D. FiISH going higher. Dujuth prices in box~ es, Herring 100 1bs. $4.15, 1bs, Pickerel 1b. .08!¢, Tull Whitefish 08? 1114, Salmon .14, Hailbut .14, Cod .13, ¥ shipment in boxesfrom Des Moines, ta., Fargo, (% . N. D. or Aberdeen, $. D. add one half cent per lb. in’ sacks same as above prices. Duluth sack prices one half cent Ib. less. Remember we guarantee safe de- livery to your shipping point. Send all orders to of all kinds are v scarce this year an tantl CONSCLIDATER FISHERIES, Sta. 13, Duluth, Minn. When You’re Fish It’s Northern Herring that Reaches the Spot NORTHERN HERRING are the finest and firmest of deep water herring. They are selected by experts and packed when fresh. Wrapped in parchment paper, and sealed air- tight within waxlined cartons. 10 cartons, 90 Ibs.,, net weight........... $4.50 100 Ibs. net weight, loose frozen herring.. 4.00 NORTHERN FISH COMPANY Address 1,-106, Duluth, Minn. Note: We wish to advise that a great short- age of herring exists on Lake Superior. If you are not getting your orders filled send them to us.. The above price can be guar- anteed only for a short time, so we ask that you do not delay. Mention the Leader When Patronizing Advertisess &