150 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Fes. 1900. | 
HOW TO PICKLE PORK. i 
Procure clean, new oak barrels for pickling. When the pork has been @ 
up, first be sure that the animal heat is entirely out of it, and that} if 
completely cold. See also that there is no blood on the pieces or joints; nt 
bloody scraps. Cover the bottom with an inch of dry, coarse salt; thew 2h. 
the pork in even layers, the skin coming in contact with the barrel in a cited 
pack the pork in eyen layers and as compactly as possible ; cover eacl At Fl 
with 1 inch of salt, filling in all the vacant places. When the barrel 18 7. 
cover the top layer with 1 inch of salt, make a strong brine and fill the e) 
barrel, so that the meat will be completely covered by it. There is no data 
of clear, fat pork becoming over-salted, no matter how much salt may be ™* aid } 
since it will only take up a certain amount of it, and any surplus will rem aid 
in the brine. Some put a small quantity of saltpetre into each barrel, wie 
hardens the pork somewhat. Usually from 40 Ib. to 50 Ib. of salt are rea 
for each barrel. The pork must be kept well covered with brine, and the 
should be looked to occasionally to see that it does not leak. 
A STATE DAIRY. ' 
A Srare dairy is to be erected at the Dookie College, in Victoria, capa? 
of treating the milk from 100 cows. 
A ELOUR-TESTING MILL. P| 
Fottowtrne the example set by Mr. Guthrie, the New South Wales Dep | 
mental chemist, whose valuable experiments are becoming very widely or 
the South Australian Department of Agriculture has ordered a Gant flo 
testing mill from Buda-Pesth, which will be erected at the School of Mone 
At present (writes the Journal of Agriculture of South Australia) a great®™ | 
too many varieties of wheat are being cultivated, with the result that the avelts 
sample is uncertain and of inferior milling quality. Naturally, some vat atl 
of wheat are of much greater milling value than others, and the admixtw®,, 
inferior qualities must depreciate the value of the flour. Even supposi8 ma 
different qualities are kept separate, and are ground separately, the miller | 
afford to ruin his reputation by turning out ever-varying qualities 0 fl A 
Halt-a-dozen varieties of wheat of first-class milling quality, heavy bear 
hardy, and rust-resistant, ought to be sufficient for the requirements of So | 
Australian farmers; instead of this there are about 1,600 named yarieB@ | 
wheat being tried in the colonies. | 
TIMBER SEASONING BY ELECTRICITY 
Durrne the last few years considerable attention has been given t? i 
invention of new processes for treating timber. he latest aspirant to fame 
a process and apparatus which claims to give to timber properties which © 
alone has so far been able to produce. It is a French idea, and has, W& 
informed, met with considerable success in Paris, where works have 
established to treat timber ona large scale. The Nodon-Bretonneau p!0%)| 
inyolves the expulsion of the sap and its replacement by a solid matter, ins y 
and aseptic. ‘Ihis is effected by placing the material to be treated in | 
containing a lukewarm solution made up of borax, 10 per cent.; resiv, | 
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