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each other as not to touch ; the width of it will hold 

 twenty-four flitches in a row, and there will be five 

 rows, which will contain one hundred and twenty 

 flitches ; as many hams may be hung at the same time 

 above the flitches contrived in the best manner we can. 

 The lower end of the flitches will be within two and a 

 half or three feet of the floor, which must be covered 

 five or six inches thick with saw-dust, and must be 

 kindled at two different sides ; it will burn, but not 

 cause any flame to injure the bacon. The door must 

 be kept close, and the hut must have a small hole in 

 the roof, so that part of the smoke may ascend. That 

 lot of bacon and hams will be ready to pack up in a 

 hogshead, to send oflf in eight or ten days, or a little 

 longer, if required, with little less of weight. 



After the bacon is salted, it may lie in the salt-house 

 as described, until an order is received, then imme- 

 diately hang it up to dry. Henderson found this 

 smoke house to be a great saving, not only in the ex- 

 pense and trouble of employing men to cart and hang 

 it through the country, but it did not lose nearly so 

 much by weight this process. 



In the disposal of bacon, whatever is shipped for 

 London market, or any other, both bacon and hams, 

 must be packed into a sugar hogshead, or something 

 similar, to hold about ten hundred weight. Bacon can 

 only be cured from the middle of September, until the 

 middle of April. 



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