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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
CUllING MEAT — NEW METHOD. 
It is said that a process has recently been discovered 
:and a patent secured by Messrs. Paddock and Marsh, of 
Cincinnati, by which meats of all kinds can be cured 
and rendered fit for any foreign market in ten minutes 
time. The process is simple and effective. As soon as 
the animal is killed, and before being skinned, salt is in- 
jected through the arteries, and almost immediately the 
whole animal is impregnated with it. Numerous experi- 
ments were tried before the object was fully accomplish- 
ed; but it is believed that now the process is fully per- 
fected, and the proprietors have entered largely into the 
packing business at Houston, Texas. Specimens of beef 
killed and cured within ten minutes, with the thermome- 
ter at 80 degrees, have been sent on and exhibited at 
Cincinnati, perfectly sweet, and equal to the best meat 
cured in the ordinary manner. 
We find the following interesting communication on 
this subject, in a late number of the Floridian and Jour- 
naZ, of Tallahassee: 
Tallahassee, Aug. 4, 1859. 
Messrs. Editors In X\iQ Charleston Courier^ of Au- 
gust 2d, is a notice of a “iVew Method'^ of curing meat, 
which a certain firm in Cincinnati have obtained a 
patent. However justly they may be entitled to the pe- 
cuniary benefits arising from their patent, a personal ad- 
vantage which in our latitude is not commonly taken by 
inventors — they cannot rightly claim the distinction of 
priority in its discovery or practice. It is within a few 
months of ten years since my friend Lewis LeConte, now 
deceased, consulted me upon the anatomical possibility of 
saturating the entire animal by injecting brine through 
the carotid artery, and after a decided affirmative 
from me, put into successful practice this now called “new 
method.” This he continued to do from the winter of 
1849-50 to that of 1851-52 inclusive, three successive 
years. Nor did the idea originate with him ; for, as he 
i)ld me, he had read that at an Agricultural Pair some- 
where in Europe, there was exhibited a leg of mutton 
cured in this way, and the question was then asked,. 
«‘Why not cure bacon so 
’ Intending to attend the Fair of the Southern Central 
Agricultural Society, held at Macon, Ga., in the fall of 
1852, Mr, LeConte had laid by half a dozen of his choic- 
est hams for exhibition. He would also have made known 
and explained the process of curing. But, alas for his 
family and the community in which he lived— for he was 
one of the most useful and public spirited citizens of 
Liberty county— the week before the Fair, by a sad and 
terrible accident his life was suddenly terminated, and 
the world at large deprived oi this useful information, 
though in his county it was almost universally known. 
In April, 1851, I saw him salt three hogs by this pro- 
cess in about ten minutes, and immediately they were cut 
up and hung in the smoke-house, then heated with fire 
and smoke, and all were perfectly cured. I observed 
the thermometer the same day at 11 o’clock, A. M., and 
the mercury stood at 80° Fah. Thus the “method” proved 
successful under the severest test. 
To many of my friends the above will be but a repeti- 
tion of facts they have for several years past heard me 
relate, but to the public generally they may be interest- 
ing- 
I will add that the process is by no means difficult, as 
you will understand when Isay that Mr. LeConte’s negro 
did it all. Very respectfully, 
G. Troup Maxwell. 
[Will Mr. Maxwell behind enough to describe plainly 
the method of Mr. LeConte, and oblige us, and our 
readers'! — E ds. 
NORTH ALABAMA FAIR. 
The Fair of the North Alabama Agricultural and Me- 
chanical Association will be held in Decatur^ from the 
19th to the 22d of October. The Journal says: 
“The Fair ground at this place has lately been undergo- 
ing some improvements, and is now in fine order for the 
coming exhibition. The location of the ground is a beau- 
tiful one, commanding an extensive view of the country 
on every side, and we indulge the belief that all who find 
it to their interest or pleasure to attend the Fair, will be 
pleased with the arrangements. 
“A great deal of interest appears to be manifested in 
regard to this Fair; and that it will be a most successful 
one, we have not a doubt. Let our farmers and mechan- 
ics go into it with a determination to make it an occasion 
for mutual improvement, and the result undoubtedly will 
prove a blessing to the entire country. North Alabama 
is rich in agricultural and mechanical products. On an 
occasion like this it is highly important that the entire 
resources of the country, together with the tact, energy 
and enterprise of her people, should be brought 
fully into notice. Let all, then, do their best, and we will 
have such a Fair as has never before been witnessed in 
this portion of the State, A.nd we will show our brethren 
of South Alabama, that although we may not be quite so 
fast in railroad matters, we are not a whit behind them in 
the cultivation of the soil, or in all the arts that pertain to 
the improvement of mankind in general.” [Good !] 
“Northern Tree Peddlers,” &c. — An amateur living 
on the sea coast of Georgia, writs us : 
It is a great disappointment to send for a soft June 
Peach, and after all the trouble of planting, watering, 
manuring, and trimming, to find the fruit a little, hard, 
worthless thing, as is the case this year with the trees I 
got from a certain Nursery at the North, which I do not 
now name. This has determined me never to be Yankeed 
again, or send to the North for a fruit tree. The meanest 
peach on the placeis better than some of those sent me from 
the above Nursery. Long sounding names as “Imperial 
Malakoff,” «&c., prove to be a little, hard, worthless peach, 
that would make a pig grunt if it didn’t squeal. 
Yours respectfully, W. H. H. 
Lime in Transplanting Trees.— An English publi- 
cation says that a large plantation of trees has been formed 
in that country, v/ithin a few years past, without the loss 
of a single tree, by putting a small quantity of lime IR 
the hole when planting the tree. Four bushels of lime 
are said to be sufficient for an acre. The lime is thor- 
ougly mixed with the soil, in order that it may be reached 
by the roots, with equal facility in every direction as its 
principal effect is to push forward the tree during the first 
precarious stages of its growth. [Is this true ?— who has 
tried it '!] 
Grinding Feed. — “If a machine was invented io grind 
hay,” says the London Farmer, “the ground article would 
approximate in value Xo unground oats in producing fat 
and muscle.” Chopping hay and stalks 's the process 
ihat comes nearest to grinding, and relieves the animal of 
iust so much lat)or as it takes to do it T weiity five pounds 
of dry hay a day is a good deal of work for the. muscles of 
one pair of jaws, if they have the whole louden <'f its re- 
duction to small bits and powder; this lalior afl't cts iIkj 
wturle system, reiardiriu the animal’s growth and tender- 
mg more food necessary to supply the waste of its tissue; 
— Country Gent. 
