Name: To Keep Meat From Flies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 little straw in the bottom; 1 cool; 1 early in the season before the fly appears

Original Recipe

Put in sacks, with enough straw around it so the flies cannot reach through. Three-fourths of a yard of yard-wide muslin is the right size for the sack. Put a little straw in the bottom, then put in the ham and lay straw in all around it; tie it tightly and hang it in a cool, dry place. Be sure the straw is all around the meat, so the flies cannot reach through to deposit the eggs. (The sacking must be done early in the season before the fly appears.) Muslin lets the air in and is much better than paper. Thin muslin is as good as thick, and will last for years if washed when laid away when emptied. National Stockman.

1 little straw in the bottom
1 cool
1 early in the season before the fly appears

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1

Put in sacks, with enough straw around it so the flies cannot reach through.
2

Three-fourths of a yard of yard-wide muslin is the right size for the sack.
3

Put a little straw in the bottom, then put in the ham and lay straw in all around it; tie it tightly and hang it in a cool, dry place.
4

Be sure the straw is all around the meat, so the flies cannot reach through to deposit the eggs. (The sacking must be done early in the season before the fly appears.) Muslin lets the air in and is much better than paper.
5

Thin muslin is as good as thick, and will last for years if washed when laid away when emptied. _National Stockman._.

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