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1 AROUND THE FARMS
IKBIX CHOWAN COUNTY
| B y c. W. OVERMAN, Chowan County Agent
HO9 Kißing Time: Hog kill
ing time is here agam. This is
the tipie when the family pork
supply should be carefully se
lected, slaughtered, cut out and
cured for high quality meat to
be used throughout the year.
Do you always get a high quali
ty meat supply for the year from
your hog killing? If not, these
pointers and the publications
noted should be of considerable
help to you.
Use young animals weighing
from 1 200 to 240 pounds each.
Slaughter when the outside tem
perature is in the low 30’s and
the weather reports indicate you
will have cold or cool weather
to follow. Slaughter hogs in the
afternoon, viscerate and split the
carcasses down the backbone and
allow them to hang in a cool
protected place overnight. The
next mqrning you will find that
your carcass is firm and will cut
out nicely. Furthermore, the
animal heat will have disappear
ed and you will get a top flavor.
The time of killing hogs is
very important. Just remember,
a 15 pound ham should stay in
cure two days per pound or 30
days, a 20 pound ham for 35
days and a 25 pound ham for 40
days. After the ham has had its
period of curing it will take
from 3Q to 60 days for the cure
to equalize throughout the piece
of meat. This means that from
the time you kill hogs until a
20 pound ham is thoroughly
penetrated with the cure it takes
approximately two to three
months* Therefore, it is most
important that you kill your
hogs early enough to allow for
the curing and equalizing pro
cess to be complete during the
cool and cold winter months.
If you wait until February to
kill hogs, you are just flirting
with trouble. Kill your pork
supply just as soon as the
weather is cold enough.
We have a number of bulletins
which are available for your
asking. If you will take these,
study them and follow the sug
gestions, you should have no
trouble curing and keeping a
top quality home pork supply if
you kill'in’time. Extenion Cir
cular' No. 287 tells you about
sharpening knives for meat cut
ting. : Folder No. AWI-108 tells
you About curing pork country
styles USDA Farmers Bulletin
No. is a quite detailed pub
lication cn slaughtering, cutting
and t processing pork on the
farml This bulletin gives you
pictures showing how to cut out
the Carcass. Extension Circular
No. 405 gives you information
on during hams country style.
Any of these publications are
free ifor the asking and if you
will jpse them you should not
havejj any trouble curing and
keeping a good supply of pork
on the farm in 1961.
Annual Meeting of Chowan
County Farm Bureau: The an
nual ■ meeting of the Chowan
County Farm Bureau will be
held at the Chowan High School
on n£xt Wednesday afternoon,
November 9, at approximately 5
o’clock, according to Lester
Copeland, secretary. Mr. Cope
land advises me that he is send
ing a written notice to each
Farm ' Bureau member who has
renewed his membership or has
joined, in the present member
ship drive.
TTiiJ is a Farm Bureau mem
ber family affair. The meeting
will be devoted to electing offi
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cers for the 1961 year. Annual
business matters will be covered.
There will be a most interesting
speaker who will discuss agri
cultural activities directly af
fecting Chowan County farm
people. This message aione will
be a most important part of the
occasion. A fish fry will be
neld in connection with the an
nual meeting.
Annual Meeting of the State
Farm Bureau: The annual meet
ing of the N. C. Farm Bureau
Federation is scheduled to be
held in Raleigh at the Sir Wal
ter Hotel beginning Sunday, No
vember 20, through Wednesday,
November 23. The program will
begin on Sunday evening with
a vesper service.
Commodity committees will be
working on resolutions and pro
posals on peanuts, cotton, tobac
co and other farm commodities
relative to improving our legis
lative program in agriculture.
Election of new officers will be
held. A great many matters of
business to the State organiza
tion will be transacted.
The approximately three days
will be filled with business and
entertainment. Farm Bureau
members and their wives will
enjoy the meeting, will profit by
it and will benefit by attending.
I would like to urge as many
Farm Bureau members in Cho
wan County as possible to at
tend this annual meeting.
TOBACCO CROP HIGHER
Production of flue-cured tobac
co in North Carolina is estimat
ed at 826,850,000 pounds on the
basis of information from grow
ers and warehousemen as of
October 1. This latest forecast
is 23,150,000 pounds, or 2.9 per
cent about the September 1 fore
cast.
Retreat
Father—Your training in the
army was excellent, but you
formed one bad habit.
Son—What was that, father
Father—You can’t get away
from charging everything. Look
at these bills.
ALL TIED UP—Project Mer
cury astronaut Virgil Gris
som, checks a maze of instru
ments before centrifuge flight
in Johnsville, Pa. The ceutri
. fuge will record human stress
at simulated high gravity con
ditions.
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