_ Australian Farm and Home) that the trouble will be overcome. The movement 
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six months’ drought without loss of a plant. When rain came at the end of 
that time the plant quickly revived, and grew to the height of 2 feet. It has 
very deep roots, which penetrate the soil in search of moisture. Tt is hoped 
the plant may turn some of the barren wastes of the American Far West into 
money-making pastures. 
PREVENTING JAM FROM BURNING. 
To avoid the labour of constantly stirring the jam, place half-a-crown in the 
bottom of the cooking pan before putting the fruit in. You will find (says 
of the coin caused by the operation of boiling prevents burning quite as 
effectually as stirring will. Remember that the effect will be spoiled if any 
stirring is done. 
TO CURE PORK WITHOUT BRINE. 
For 100 lb. of pork, take 2 quarts of salt, 3 1b. of brown sugar, and 3 oz. of 
saltpetre. Pulverise the saltpetre as finely as possible, and mix it thoroughly _ 
with the salt and sugar. Now rub a little of the mixture on the rind side 0 
your pork, and then apply the remainder on the flesh side, rubbing it in well 
with the hand. Pack it in a box or barrel which is not very tight, to let the 
drippings run off. Rub on each piece as you put it into the box. After 24 
hours take it out and apply 2 quarts of pure salt in the same manner, if the 
ieces are very large; but, if small, 1 quart isenough. Leave it for three oF 
our weeks, and then it is ready for smoking. 
AN ANTI-KICKING DEVICE. 
Somx horses are prone to kick. When an animal addicted to this habit has to 
work in harness, it is not always a pleasant or an easy matter to have to manage 
it. Damage more often than not ensues either to horse or vehicle, the chances 
being against the horse if the build of the cart is heavy, while a gig or a light 
dog-cart is soon reduced to smithereens by a vigorous kicker. The habit can 
be easily checked and eventually cured in the worst offender by a simple device 
involving practically neither cost nor trouble. The anti-kicking arrangement 
consists of a double over-check drawn tight, so that the animal cannot draw 
down his head, which a horse always does when about to give play to his heels. 
Take a strap a little longer than an ordinary bridle rein, about 3-inch wide, with 
a buckle at each end, and attach on one side to shorten or lengthen. Then fasten — 
to head-piece A on an ordinary bridle down and through the ring of the steel 
bit B, such as is used with over-check, and on through loop C of common bridle 
to hook D on back pad, and continue so on other side. No one would suspect 
that it was an anti-kicker, but the horse would quickly make the discovery: 
much to his astonishment and discomfort when he started his old game.— — 
Harmer and Stockbreeder, 
