Show 1 cheaply constructed smoke house useful building may also serve for general storage use SEVERAL types of smoke 0 are proving satisfactory kind of house to be selected will depend largely upon the volume meat to be smoked as well as off season use that may be made the house where an A shaped smoke house is used the wall or sides should be made of boards about 9 feet long in order to keep the meat about 5 feet away from the fire the sloping walls should be spread 7 feet at the bottom the house 8 feet long is large enough for the smoking of a large number of hogs as usually the canadian bacons bacans boneless butts and the bacons bacans will come out of the cure three or four weeks before the hams are ready to smoke many use the barrel for smoking meat the smoke should enter the barrel through a tunnel from a fire as much as 5 or 6 feet from the barrel for the other type of ef house illustrated almost any material may be used for the walls there should be some small openings or cracks at the top of the house the house walls should be at least 7 feet high smoke houses for every purpose the floor dimensions may be as little as 4 by 6 feet small one or two car garages have been used satisfactorily for smoke houses the storm cellar or storage cellar may also be utilized it takes about 30 hours of continuous smoking to finish the job on hams A small fire can be started every morning and allowed to die down during the afternoon or the smoking can be done continuously |