Saving bacon.
--A correspondent of the Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate makes a suggestion to the planters of the Confederate States, which it may be worth their while to heed, in reference to the saving of bacon. The gist of the matter is contained in the following extract:‘ If our planters would refer to quotations, they will observe that molasses can be had in New Orleans at 25 cents per gallon, and rice in Charleston at 3 cents per pound. If they will change their mode of allowance, and give 2 ½ pounds of meat, 2 pounds of rice, quart of molasses, and I peck of meal, they will consume home productions, rice and molasses, to the partial exclusion of foreign meat. Estimating the number of full hands at 1,500,000, you will see that this plan, which gives 2 ½ pounds of meat, instead of 4 pounds per week, will diminish the consumption of bacon 2,250,000 pounds a week in the Confederacy, and the negroes would be much more healthy. It is said that typhoid fever is unknown where molasses is freely used.
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