176 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ave., 1898. 
PICKLE FOR MEAT. 
Tue following is a good receipt for curing pork or beef :—To each gallon of 
water, take 13 Ib. salt, $ lb. sugar, 3-oz. saltpetre, and }-oz. pure potash. In 
these proportions, the pickle can be increased to any quantity desired. Boil 
until the scum from the sugar has risen to the top, and has been skimmed off. 
When cold, pour it over the pork or beef to be cured. The meat must be well 
covered by the pickle, and ought not to be put down until two days after 
Jalling, during which time it should be lightly sprinkled with powdered 
saltpetre to remove the surface blood, and leave the meat fresh and clean. In 
curing beef, the pickle will have to be drawn off, boiled and skimmed three 
times, after which it will remain clear; but for pork, one boiling is generally 
sufficient. It also requires more pickle for beef than for pork on account of 
the waste in boiling. 
This recipe needs to be tried but once to be appreciated, as the meat is 
unsurpassed for sweetness, delicacy; and colour. It requires to be kept in a 
clean, sweet barrel.—South Australian Journal of Agriculture. 
TO DESTROY WILD MUSTARD. 
THE Chronique Agricole du Canton de Vaud (Switzerland) says :— 
We again draw the attention of agriculturists to the method of destroying 
wild mustard (senéves) in wheatfields by means of spraying with a solution of 
sulphate of copper (blue vitriol). 
We would advise those who wish to try the remedy to choose the time 
when the mustard covers the ground, when it is young, tender, and has scant 
foliage. The longer the work is delayed, the harder and more resistant the 
plant becomes. The treatment will, however, succeed fairly well even when 
the plants are in flower. The spraying should be done on a fine morning, 
when a hot day and bright sun are likely to supervene. Should rain occur 
shortly after spraying, the sulphate would be washed away and the weeds 
would require a second treatment. 
The strength of the mixture should be 5 per cent. of sulphate, 95 per cent. 
of water. It requires 1,000 litres (about 222 gallons) of liquid to spray 
1 hectare (23 acres). The remedy is applied by the use of any spraying 
instrument, which will do the work so lightly that the mixture will not run to 
the ground, but remain on the leaves. _ 
Some experimenters have tried sulphate of iron (green vitriol) in the ratio 
of 15 to 80 kilograms (33 to 66 Ib.) per 100 litres (22 gallons), and, it would 
appear, with good results. 
We would remind the farmer that this treatment can only be applied to 
wheatfields or to fields on which cereals generally are grown. These suffer 
little from being washed with a copper solution, but a crop of potatoes or beets 
would infallibly be destroyed by it. 
A wRITFR in the Scottish Farmer says that, although copper sulphate 
solution was the substance first used by the investigator who discovered this 
mode of eradicating charlock, iron sulphate has since been found to answer as 
well, and the cost is mtich less. A 15 per cent. solution is recommended, 
which must be applied by means of a spraying machine. The method had, 
however, not been tried in Scotland at the time of writing (May 21). 
[We shall be glad to hear of the results of any trials made in the direction 
of eradicating the wild mustard so prevalent in our Queensland wheatfields.— 
Ed. Q.4.J.] 
NOXIOUS WEED—THE BLACKBERRY. 
“ GornG-A-BLACKBERRYING” in our young days in the old country was a treat 
eatly enjoyed by all youngsters, and even by grow people. “ Going-a-black- 
errying” in Australia appears to be a very different kind of enjoyment. 
According to a correspondent of the Sydney Stock and Station Journal, the 
