VOL. LIX.
INDIANAPOLIS, DECEMBER 3, 1904.
NO. 49.
Good Receipt for Pickling Pork and Beef.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
As it is the time of year that farmers
are butchering and laying in their supply
of meat I will give a couple of receipts
that we have used for several years, and
like them better than any others .we have
tried. For hams and shoulders, for ea/U
100 pounds take four pounds of salt and
two pounds of sugar. Mix thoroughly;
when the meat is cut first rub it well w! h
pure salt on the flesh side; let it lie a
day or two; then drain out any blood that
may be in it; divide the sugar and salt
mixture in to three equal parts; rub part
onr the meat and pack in a barrel; lei it
be three days, then rub it again and pack
it as the first time; at the end of three
days rub it ag'.iin; the sixth day salt e^tin,
using the remainder of the salt; let it be
three days more or longer and it is ready
to hang .up. It should be kept in a celluj.%
or some place where it will not freeze
while the curing process is going on. If
one has two barrels, it is more convenient
For beef: Cut it tip ready to salt; then
pack it in a barrel without any salt;
pound it down solid as you can; then make
a brine that will bear an egg; add one
pound of sugar for each 100 pounds of
beef; pour the brine on until the beef is
covered place weights on it so that it can
not float. This does not make it too
salty to be palatable and it will koop
all winter. There is a recipe for dryiig
beef we have not tried it yet, but think it
a good one. For every 20 pounds of bee"
take one pint of salt, one teaspoonful of
saltpeter and a quarter pound of sugar.
Divide these into three equal parts, and
rub them on the beef for three successive
days. The meat is then ready to hang
up. D. M. Adam>.
Borne, Kansas.
G. E.M, Btlll Out West.—His Secord
Montana Letter.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Almost might one think that in the old
days some king did reign here supreme in
medieval style for tlie trail by which the
railroad finds its way up the canyon of
Belt Creek into the midst of the Belt
mountains climbs upward, upward, until
Monarch sits 1,000 feet above Great Falls,
a coign of vantage. A side canyon, steeper and yet more picturesque than the Belt
canyon leads out of tliis wild country onto a series of high agricultural lands
which are at once an astonishment and a
delight to the eye. Is it possible, oho
asks, that here, 5,000 ft. high and yet within sight of tlie Great Falls smelter smoke
stack, lies an undulating farming section
as prosperous and productive as perhaps
any region of the world? Farmers were
coming down this canyon with hay, grain
and potatoes for market. How much
are you getting for your hay this year, I
asked. Eleven dollars was the reply.
And what are oats worth? Oats were $1.2D
a hundred pounds in this section, and
weighed 40 and 45 pounds to the bushel.
How was the potato yield this year, I
asked one man driving along with a ton
or more of sacked spuas. He was a
Swede. Well, he said, pretty fair. Not
too much. Pretty fair. That was all
I could find out. Which reminded me of
tho incident of the engineer running on c
southern Illinois train iwho had a new
fireman nnd when he sent him back to see
how much water there was in the tank, all
he could learn was that there was "right
smart." So he looked himself and found
"right smart" to lbe exactly nine inches.
Later I discovered that "pretty fair" probably corresponded to about 125 or 150
bushels to the aere.
Now the wonder of this Kihbey section
so-called, which includes very many square
miles of fine farm lands is that,  though
Yet a 160 acre farm in this Kibbey
country and in what is known as the
"Michigan Settlement," with barn, gran-
TATOOSH FALLS, WASHINGTON.
you are in sight of the desert, yet you
might think yourself in the rolling country of Illinois. There is abundant moisture for the growing of enormous crops
and no irrigation is practiced. _Uiis year
is the dryest in the history of Montana
and yet no crops of oats which I saw ran
less than35bushels,some 45 bushels to the
acre; wheat 20 and 25 bushels and timothy
hay a ton and a half—fairly good for what
the farmers term a failure year.
It is passing strange that here in the
midst of the foot hills of tho Rockies, in
a state generally understood throughout
the country to be largely desert arrd requiring irrigation for fanning, lies a big
community which is, I verily believe, as
productive as any section of the United
States, as capable of producing, acre for
acre, year in and year out, as great a
crop value as any section of the United
States. For three feet deep the earth
is a solid manure. It is no more a desert than is the Louisiana bottom.
ery, cabin and other real improvements,
sold this year for $1,400, because half
the country has been taken up under the
desert land law.
There have been thousands of fraudulent entries in Montana, under the desert
act, an act constructed, and innocently
passed by Congress for the purpose of il-
lowing public land stealing in the West.
Should the people of Montana 6et their
faces against this nefarious law and in
sist upon the carrying out of the principle of the old homestead law, with its
5-year residence provision, the population
of the State could be surely doublc'd within ten years. , G. E. M.
Monarch, Mont., Nov. 8.
TOLSTOI ON rEACE.
It is the habit of Tolstoi, as his readers
know, to call a spade a spade land that
whether he is discussing religion, social
reform or  the  policy  of  nations. His
recent letter to the London Times on the
Russo-Japanese war has this characteristic trait in a pronounced form. Its
bold, fearless nnd scatehing arrtiigmeut
of thn Russian war policy, and of the
militarist doctrine as it exists among all
so-called Christian nations has aroussd
the world as no otlier utterance of tho
kind has done in many years. Thoso
who fail to agree with the great Russian
reformer will find it difficult to break the
force of his logic that war is essentially
barbaric, beastly and absurdly and grossly inconsistent between nations professing
to be animated by a Christian and enlightened spirit and desirous of promoting
humanity and justice. Tolstoi may be
au extremist in his pence doctrines; but
saner, more tclerahle ami better for the
world is such extremism than the wild,
extravagant and pernicious war talk of
which we are hearing so much in these
days from men in places of power and influence in* our own and other lands. Far
moro ratij_nal is it than the reasoning
wh'ch apparently rests upon the assumption that war is a part of the moral cr-
der of the world now and forevermore
and that in the future, just ns in the past,
tho chief duty of nations is to prepare
for war with each other no matter what
the cost to public morals and humane
progress nor what burdens of indebtedness
it  heaps  upon  the  people.
WHAT   'HORSE   POWER"   IS.
What is the relative amount of work
that a man can do in comparison with a
horse or machinery? At his very best
tho strongest man stands in pretty poor
comparison, even with a horse, for hord,
contimions   labor. He   might   perform
for a few minutes one-half horse power
of work, but to keep this up for any
great length of time would bo impossible.
Thus the gain in forcing horses to do
a part of tho world's work was etior-
mous. Ono horse could exhaust a dozen
men in a single day, and still be ready
for tha next day's work.
The measurement ofi a horse's power
for work was first ascertained by Watt,
the father of the modern steam engine,
and he expressed this in terms that hold
to-day. He experimented with a great
number of heavy brewery hoises to satisfy himself that his unit of measurement for work was correct. After many
trials he ascertained that the average
brewery horse was doing work equal to
that requirejl to raise 330 pounds ot
weight 100 feet high in one minute, or
33,000 pounds one foot in one minute.
So he called this one horse power.
This work, however, is not continuous,
for the horse would have to back up after
eaeh pull tj> lower the line of the pulle.,,
iand thus he wonld work four hours a
day in pulling 330 pounds in* the air at
the rate ofi 100 feet a minute, and four
hours :n slacking up the rope. Consequently no horse can actually perform
continuously what is generally called oue
horse   pewer. The   horse   wlas  nev,er
born that could tug at a rope for eight
hours a day, pulling 330 pounds 100 feet
each minute without rest or change. Consequently when we speak of horse power
we refer only to. the average work a
horse can do in one minute, that is to
say the rate at which he can work.—
From George Ethelbert Walsh's "What
a Lump of Coal Could Do" in October
St.  Nicholas.
Although it is only three months since
ocean liners first called at Dover, this
trallic has already in-creased the local
shipping tonnage by more than a million
tons.