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Show The Smoke House. Down in Georgia they're going back to the old form of farming by restoring restor-ing the smoke house, and they are arguing that methods once common must be resorted to now if farming is carried on at a profit. Georgia farmers are said to have objected to the commercial system under which they were receiving but seven and eight cents a pound for the pork they raised, while they saw the ham and bacon of commerce retailng in their own markets mar-kets for 25c a pound and up. They resolved to re-establish the antebellum ante-bellum "smoke house" on their farms, and immediately carried the resolution resolu-tion into effect. Through co-operation they have commenced marketing their products in the finished form and are building up an extensive business. They find that the profits which they make from curing their own meats are relatively re-latively large, considering the time and expense involved, than those which they were receiving from marketing mar-keting hogs on the hoof. The remarkable thing about this profitable experiment is that it has not been worked out in any grain centers, or near any of the country's great markets, but in a remote county in the extreme southern part of Georgia, in a "one-crop" section, and that crop cotton. |