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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1063 
The Rural Patterns. 
A very pretty little coat for children 
in shown in No. 6494. The coat is made 
with front, back and side portions and 
the plaited flounce is attached to the 
sides beneath the belt. The collar finishes 
the neck edge and there is a shield which 
is adjusted under the coat and closed at 
the back. The coat itself is lapped in 
double breasted style and held by three 
buttons, the shaped edge making a nota¬ 
ble feature. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size (6 years) 
is V /2 yards 27, 2^4 yards 44 or 52 inches 
wide with 2$4 yards of banding. The 
pattern 6494 is cut sizes for girls of 
four, six and eight years of age; price 
10 cents. 
The school suit shown is stylish and 
comfortable; it may be made all of one 
material, or of two materials combined. 
The suit consists of blouse and skirt. 
The blouse is made with seams that ex¬ 
tend to the shoulders and is closed with 
buttons and buttonholes at the left 
shoulder and under-arm seams. There 
6501 Girl’s School Suit, 8 to 14 years. 
are one-piece sleeves that are gathered 
into deep cuffs. The skirt consists of 
the yoke and the gored portion, which is 
plaited and joined to it. There are 
turned-over portions finishing the cuffs 
and the facing for the lower edge of the 
blouse is made in two pieces, seamed to 
the lower edge. The quantity of material 
required for the medium size (12 years) 
is for the blouse, two yards 24 or 27, 1^4 
yards 32 or \V\ yards 44 inches wide: 
for the skirt and trimming Z l / 2 yards 24, 
or 27, ' 3J4 yards 32 or 2 ^ yards 44 
inches wide. The pattern 6501 is cut in 
sizes for girls of eight, 10, 12 and 14 
years of age; price 10 cents. 
Curing Pork and Hams. 
Will you kindly give me the best recipe 
for pickling pork? IIow do you keep the 
lean meat from getting too salt? Is there 
any Government bulletin how to pfckle, cure 
and salt meats? I am anxious to cure my 
pork as near perfect as human ingenuity 
ancf experience can devise. l. l. 
Would you please tell me how to put 
down pork and how to cure hams? What 
kind of salt should I use? M. B. 
For keeping good salt pork, first of all 
be sure that your barrel is clean. Cover 
the bottom of the barrel with coarse 
salt; Turk’s Island or Liverpool salt is 
the best. Cut the pork into strips about 
six inches wide, stand edgewise in the 
barrel, with the skin next the outside, 
curving the pieces so as to fit snugly, 
until the bottom of the barrel is filled; 
then cover with a thick coat of salt, so 
as to hide the pork entirely. Continue 
until the pork is all in, putting an inch 
of salt between each layer and an inch 
and a half on top; let stand three or 
four days, then weight the pork down 
with a stone and pour over enough cold 
water to cover. There must be enough 
salt to produce a heavy brine, so saturat¬ 
ed with salt that no more will dissolve 
in it; if the pork is kept under the brine 
-it will keep indefinitely. 
Sugar-curing is usually preferred for 
hams, and side bacon is of superior quaL 
ity cured in the same way. To 50 pounds 
of ham or “side bacon’’ allow three 
pounds of sugar and a pint of molasses, 
six pounds of salt, one full tablespoon¬ 
ful of saleratus and the same of salt¬ 
peter. Cover the bottom of your firkin 
with salt (about two pounds). Mix 
sugar, molasses, saltpeter, saleratus and 
the remaining salt into a paste. Rub 
each piece thoroughly with this, work it 
in well and hard, and pack into the fir¬ 
kin, the rind downward. Cover all with 
cold water—just enough to rise above 
the meat. Lay a heavy board on top, 
weight it with a stone to keep the meat 
under water, and leave it thus for four 
weeks, turning the meat and stirring up 
the pickle every week. Take out, then 
wipe, rib into the pieces as much dry 
salt and an equal quantity of sugar as 
they will take up; pack in a dry firkin 
and leave for 24 hours before sending 
to the smoke-house. Molasses pickle is 
made as follows: To four quarts of fine 
salt and two ounces of pulverized salt¬ 
peter add enough molasses to make a 
paste. Hang the hams in a cool dry 
place for three or four days after cut¬ 
ting up; then cover with the pickle mix¬ 
ture, thickest on the flesh side, and lay 
them skin down for three or four days. 
For 100 pounds of ham make brine in 
the following proportion : Seven pounds 
coarse salt; two ounces saltpeter; one- 
half ounce pearlash; four gallons soft 
water. Heat gradually, removing all 
scum as it arises, then cool. Pack the 
hams in a barrel, pour the brine over 
them, and keep in pickle five to eight 
weeks, according to size. 
If the pork is kept in the brine over 
Summer, from the previous Falls pick¬ 
ling it will naturally, become quite salt. 
1 f some of the side meat is sugar-cured 
like ham, and smoked, it will be of extra 
quality, and free from the objection of 
excessive saltiness. 
Farmers’ Rulletin No. 183, “Meat on 
the Farm,” issued by the U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., 
gives excellent instructions and advice. 
Scott’s Emulsion 
is the original—has been the 
standard for thirty-five years. 
There are thousands of so- 
called “just as good” Emul¬ 
sions, but they are not—they 
are simply imitations which 
are never as good as the 
original. They are like thin 
milk—SCOTT’S is thick like 
a heavy cream. 
If you want it thin, do it 
yourself — with water — but 
don’t buy it thin. 
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