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The above receipt makes a fine sugar-cured ham, and good breakfast bacon, 
id the beauty of it is that you donot have to salt your meat down, but first 
Pit it in the pickle as soon as the meat can be cut up and the animal heat 
} fotten out of it. If a cold night or two should come, the pieces are much 
qrroved by being removed from the barrel, and left all night exposed to the 
. The receipt is equally good for corning beef; only you should dip each 
ne of the beef into the brine while it is boiling for three or four seconds, and 
“1 proceed as with the pork. 
Home-cured hams are helped wonderfully by adding to the brine a cup of 
“War and a little mustard. 
hi Be very particular in making the above brine not to use western salt, 
Yhich was clarified with lime, New York salt, clarified with blood, for Turk’s 
“and or Liverpool salt is better.—Pacific Rural Press. 
WINDLASS AND BUCKET IRRIGATION. 
The accompanying illustration shows a very simple and economical method of 
x ‘ing water from a river, creek, or lagoon, for irrigation or other purposes, 
is Which is now in practice on many of the farms and stations of the interior 
New South Wales and other Australian colonies. The plan is to stretch a 
faa wire rope from a post on the bank of the stream to a post driven in the 
si of the stream, as shown in the central figure of our illustration. On the 
ane is placed an ordinary runner, or small block, to which is made fast a bucket 
oil drum. ‘To the runner is then made fast a small rope, which is rove through 
lading block on the upright post on the bank, and taken to the barrel on the 
Mndlass, ‘The whole appliance is now complete. The bucket will run down 
© standing rope by its own gravity, and will dip in the water as shown in the 
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ebtt-hand figure of the engraving. When full, it is hoisted up as shown in the 
“ntral figure, until it reaches a sufficient height to be reached from the bank 
a the operator, as seen in the left-hand corner figure. We know of several 
t ople in the country who hoisted sufficient water by this method to keep their 
& &$ going during the hot weather of last year. Of course only small buckets 
~ used by this plan, as large vessels, such as casks, would sag the rope so 
Uch when in the middle that it would be impossible to land them on the bank, 
a @ couple of boys with an oil drum can raise a large quantity” of water in a 
Se. by the device shown, and it has the advantage of being cheap and easily 
88ed.— Town and Country Journal. 
