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It is interesting to talk with
different persons who spend a
fair share of time out-of doors
coBcmiing their preference for
"'tatiic” game. Many who have
eaten wild turkey, properly pre
pared, rank this bird as number
taie on their game list for flavor
and texture of meat. Others ex
press a preference for bear, de
fending well cooked bear meat
as excellent in flavor if a little
course in texture. There seems to
be a wide difference of opinion
concerning deer meat. I have
talked with persons who do not
care for deer regardless of how
it is prepared, and others who are
quite fond of this paticular form
of vension. I have always liked |
deer meat soaked a while in
vinegar before cooking, or cook
ed with just a little vinegar to
make less perceptable, the some,
times rather “strong” taste that
is characteristic of the flesh of
many wild animals. Incidentally,
it has been my experience that
much of this “wild” taste can be
eliminated by freezing the meat
before cooking. I have eaten
bear steak which remained froz
en for several weeks prior to
cooking and bear steak chilled
only a few hours before it was
placed on the fire, and the for
mer was not only more tender,
b’ut possessed a decidely better
flavor. j
Man’s habits are .strongly in
fluenced by precedence, and un- !
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fortunately so, in some Instances,
We refrain from eating man/
really fine meats because they
are not commonly thought of as
accepted items of diet. Ruxton,
an Englishman who lived in the
West many year sago, said,
“Throwing aside all the qualms
of conscientious scruples of a
fastidious stomach, it must be
confessed that dog meat takes a
high rank in the wonderful var
iety of cuisine afforded to the
gourmand and the gourmet by the
prolific mountains. Now, when
the bill of fare offers such tempt
ing viands as buffalo beef, ven
ison, mountain mutton, turkey,
grouse, wild foul, hares, rabbits,
beaver tails, etc., the station as
signed to dog as No. 2 in the list
can be well appreciated—No. 1
in delicacy of flavor, richness of
meat, and other good qualities,
being the flesh of panthers, which
surpasses every other, and all put
together.” Many travelers in tiie
West in the early days were fond
of dog meat. Lewis and Claik,
in speaking of dog flesh, say.
“The greater part of us have ac
quired a fondness for it . . .
While we subsisted on that food
we were fatter, stronger, and in
general enjoyed better health
than at any period since leaving
the buffalo country.”
The expression “eat crow” was
in common usage at one time
and meant doing something that
one had no taste, for. Actually,
while crow is possibly inferior to
chicken, it is by no means un-
palatible. I have eaten young
crow with relish and when a boy,
many were the sparrow “pies”
that my mother prepared for me
when I returned from the hedge
rows proudly bearings brace of
English Sparrows killed with the
trusty Daisy air rifle.
Many who survived the siege
of Paris testified that from a
culinary point of view, cats were
really delicious. To quote one of
these, “Those who have not tast
ed couscoussou of cat have never
tasted anything ... it is far more
delicious than stewed rabbit.”
Rattlesnake together with frog
legs is considered a delicacy, and
used to sell for as much as a
dollar for a small can in the bet
ter stores in Florida.
Coon is another animal whose
meat, while “strong”, is’ not
unpleasant. Last winter I killed
a medium sized female coon
which Mrs. Bird cooked, after
much persuasion, but flatly re
fused to eat. The children would
have none of it and I was forced
to dine on coon chops, coon
steak, coon roast and finally
coon hash for an entire aveek.
It wasn’t bad at all for the first
few days. ■/
After all, those of us who eat
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raw oysters and all of the.j)ig
but its squeal have littU right to
criticize those who eat fresh,
wholesome wild meat, regard
less of source.
Actually, y;hile I cannot speak
from experience and would hesi
tate to‘recommend it, even leath
er contains a semblance of
nBurishment. An extract from
the diary of \Sir John Franklin
is rather grimly humorous,
“There was no tripe de roche (an
edible lichen that, grows on rocks
in the far North), so we drank
tea and ate some of our shoes
for supper.”
In extreme cases of “eat or
die”, almost anything is edible
While I have never been in pos
ition where I was forced to eat
the reindeer moss whieli is found
so abimdantly further north, I
have on several occasions, eaten
a gelatinous substance made from
this moss by continuous boiling.
I never learned to like it, but it
does fill an empty void and af
fords a semblance of nouidshment.
All of which emphasizes the
fact that often many cf us • who
live in the midst of plenty do not
appreciate the excellent food to
which we are accustomed.
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September Social ^
Security Payments
Will Be Bigger
Here is what happened to old-
age and survivors insurance in
this area when President Truman
signed the 1950 amendments to the
Social Security Act.
All monthly insurance checks
now being paid to the social sec
urity beneficiaries in the area ad
ministrated by the Fayetteville
Field Office will be raised sub
stantially, beginning with the
September checks, according to
Vernon D. Herbert, Manager of
the local office. Mr. Herbert ex
plained that these automatic in
creases, for September, are sche
duled to reach local beneficiaries
during the first week of October.
Increases will range from about
50% to about 100%. For exam
ple, the average primary benefit
of approximately $26 per month
for a retired worker will be in
creased to about $46. A widow
with two children who had been
receiving $55 a month will now
receive about $110 altogether.
Manager Herbert said that und
er the old terms of the social se
curity law the 2,030 beneficiaries
in this area would have received
about $28,2B0 (total) for the
month of September. Under the
new increases, however, total
payments for September are es
timated to ,be about $53,200, or an
immediate increase of some $24,-
970 monthly in insurance benefits
to this area.
Under the new law the amount
of earnings which a beneficiary
may make in a month, and stijl'
accept his insurance payment for
that, month, is raised from $14.99
to $50. This applies to benefici
aries under age 75, and for earn
ings in a job covered by society
security. After attaining age 75,
a beneficiary may have any a-
mount of earnings and still ac
cept his insurance checks.
A very important aspect of the
new legislation is the more liber
al qualifying conditions. Mr. Her
bert pointed out that any individ-
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may be immediately eligible for
monthly benefit payments. It has
been estimated that about 750,-
090 old people in the United
States may qualify for insurance
payments under this clause. Many
aged person's may now claim
benefits even though they have
not been employed long enough
to qualify under the former re
quirements. Mr.. Herbert said that
this would affect a considerable
number of aged persons in this
area who had once filed claims
for social security benefits but
had not at that time been able
to qualify.
The new definition of “em
ployee” in the amended law ac
counts for an additional 350,000
to toe covered by social security.
This new definition extends Fed
eral insurance to full-time life
insurance salesmen, agent-driv
ers or commission drivers 'engag
ed in distributing meat or bakery
products, vegetables or fruit pro
ducts, heverages (other than milk)
or laundry or dry .cleaning serv
ices. Full time traveling of city
salesmen (other than house-to-
house salesmen) are included.
Still excepted from social sec
urity coverage are farm operators,
ministers and members of religious
orders, and certain. self-employ
ed professional people.
The benefits will continue to be
paid for in the same way - by
payroll taxes.on the workers and
employers involved - but since
self-employed as well as employ
ed persons are now covered, a
new way of collecting part of the
taxes was called for. Self-employ
ed persons will report their an
nual earnings and pay their spec
ial social security tax (2 1-4% to
start with) when they make their
income tax returns at the end of
each year.
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