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��Smoke Your Own Hams with This Portable Smoke-House

THE German hausfrau has her own smoke-house which she uses in con- nection with the domestic stove. It is practically a large sheet-iron can, with a neck at the bottom of suitable width to fit the stove. Inside it is divided into two com- partments. A partition is placed on one side which connects at the top with a perforated plate (wire gauze would prob- ably do), and at the bot- tom with a solid plate forming the bottom of the chamber.

The smoke passes up through the connecting pipe, up the back passage, down through the per- forated plate into the smoke-chamber, and thence through the out- let into the chimney. Any dirt or soot or cin- ders are intercepted by the perforated plate. The apparatus is used on the kitchen stove, with a

��enham, England. It is essentially an improved "fireless cooker" of simple construction, in which the heat necessary for cooking, baking, boiling or broiling is supplied by an ordinary incandescent electric lamp.

The cooker is eighteen inches high and twenty inches square and weighs thirty pounds. It consists of two iron cases, one inside of the other, but sepa- rated by a thick filling of expanded cork. Through a hole in the lower part of the box the socket of an electric lamp is passed, which may be connected with any convenient plug or lighting fixture. To the socket an ordinary electric light bulb is at- tached inside the box.. Above the heating bulb several shelves are ar- ranged, so that several dishes may be cooked at the same time. The cooking box may be opened by the housewife at any time for the in- spection of the contents, which cannot be done small, slow-burning fire and any suitable with the ordinary "fireless cooker," for smoke-producing material that is at hand, the lamp will soon replace any lost heat^

���This smoke-house is used on the kitchen above with a small fire

��Just the Thing for a Kitchenette — An Electric Cooker

HOUSEKEEPING in a modern apart- ment, although its space economy is carried to extremes, can be simpli- fied by the use of the portable cooking box invented by Mr Leoline Edwards, of Twick-

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��Pity the Salt Industry: It Makes Little Profit

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����Diagram and method of use of a homemade electric cooker It is a kind of improved "fireless cooker," simply constructed

��RECENT investigation by the Bureau of Mines proved that a salt famine in the United State;5 is unlikely. At the same time it was established that owing to the low price of salt and the abundance of its supply there is but little profit in the salt industry, al- though the American salt works have sup- plied in recent years practically all the salt consumed in the United States. What a pity — for the profiteers — salt is not used in munitions T

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