Show MISSOURIS FAVORITE CHAWJ An Old Farmer Tells How the ut71 I Settlers Made Their Terbaker An old Mlssourian from one of the brush districts of Saline county was I witness In the Circuit court in Marshall last week the Index says While waiting In an anteroom he pulled from his pocket n chunk of tobacco six inches In-ches IonS two inches in diameter and perfectly round and smooth and a hard almost as flint After he had cut oil a chew a man who had watched him asked him what it was Ter baker ho answered e I know but what kind is It My own kind Where do you buy It 7 Dont buy HIs H-Is homespun terbakcr I make it myself my-self In response to a good deal of questioning ques-tioning the old man told his story of how the roll of tobacco 101 was made Fust and fomost he said you must have good upland homegrown leaf ter baker and cure it in the sun Then you stem It takln out all the stalks When youre ready in the fall to makeup make-up your years supply of chawln ter bakcr you saw off a hickory log and bore l hole In one end about n foot deep with a twoinch auger You have your leaf soaked In honey and peach brandy or If you havent any peach brandy apple brandy will do You put your soaked terbakcr leaves into the twoinch auger hole In the hickory log and ram it down tight and keep putting put-ting in the leaf and ramming it down till the hole is nearly full Then you lake a hickory plug made to fit the hole and drive It In as tight as you can with a mauL This mashes thc terbaker into a sold chunk Then you put the green hickory log on the lire and le J burn slow till I Is heated all through and the sap begins to sIx i Tile u of the ends You take the logoff log-off then and put It out of doors to cool over night l The next morning you split the log open and theres your chunk of chawln lerbaker that will keep as hard as leather In any climate but Its the sweetest chaw in the world There never was no store ter bakcr to hold a xrandl to it for a sweet Juicy lastln chawS chaw-S eral tobacco chewers standing around sampled the old mans homo I made plug and declared that It was tho best they have ever tasted In the old days thats the way the fast settlers In Missouri made their chaw In terbaker the old man said Kansas Kan-sas City Journal I |