SOLON ROBINSON, 1846 17 



improvements, how do you think we could get a school- 

 master for $8 a month or a school-mistress for $1 a week 

 and "board round?" A pretty state of things you would 

 bring about, truly. Why, sir, I thought you were in favor 

 of economy, and cheapness, and all that. Another thing — 

 who would settle in a neighborhood where they saw such 

 a school house as you describe? Why, none but the most 

 wealthy and "high larnt" class of folks, until there 

 wouldn't be a poor man nor ragged boy in the district — 

 and how could folks live where there were no poor folks ? 

 I guess the neighborhood of such a school house would 

 soon get the name of "aristocratic." 

 Lake C. H., la. 1846. 



Practical Facts about Pork and Bacon.^ 



[New York Amencan Agriculturist, 5:282; Sep., 1846^] 



[May 15, 1846] 



What is the loss in weight on tnaking pork into bacon? 

 This question is often asked, and every farmer, particu- 

 larly in the West, ought to know how to answer it. As a 

 general and safe rule, from facts within my own knowl- 

 edge, I have always contended that it is better for the 

 purchaser to buy pork in the hog, and make his own 

 bacon, when he can do it for one half the price per pound, 

 than to buy it ready made. That is, if pork is usually 

 worth 3 cts. and bacon "hog round," 6 cts., it is better to 

 buy the fresh pork. I am writing for the West, and in 

 Western language. That your Eastern readers may un- 

 derstand, I will say that "hog round" means 2 hams, 2 

 shoulders, and 2 sides — out of which latter the bones 

 should always be taken. I always trim off belly pieces for 

 lard. Hams and shoulders too are well trimmed. The 



' Robinson contributed "More Facts about Pork and Bacon," to 

 the February American Agriculturist, 1847 (6:63), and an article 

 on "Comparative Weight of Pork and Bacon," to the June issue 

 (6 :186-87) . These are not reprinted. 



^Reprinted in the Daily Cincinnati Gazette, September 23, 18 IG. 

 and in part in the Prairie Farmer, 7:32-33 (January, 1847). 



