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moderate oven, keeping it well basted with the liquid and closely covers 
Turn it over now and then. It will take from three to four hours. Very h 
milk should be used, as the meat always curdles it; still, use a little, ast gr 
improves the flavour of the pork. When ready place it on a hot dish, reme 
the string, and pour over it a good white sauce nicely seasoned and flayou a 
You will be surprised at the delicacy of the pork, which seems to be chicken © 
veal rather than pork. 
The remains can be cut up and rewarmed in the sauce, or made into a curly 
or Cornish pasties. : é 
The bone broken up and stewed slowly with cold water and a pinch of si 
or sugar makes an excellent stock for vegetable soups, such as peas, bal 
beans, and lentil soups, all of which are improved by the addition of 4 ite 
greasy stock, such as pork, ham, or bacon bones produce. The skin shoul i 
cut up and rendered down in a cool oven. When the fat is all extracted, aa 
1t off, and it will be as good as lard. The “scraps” still contain some fat 4 
make 2 good breakfast dish with a mustard sauce, and can be eaten hot of il an 
The liquor in which the pork was stewed is not to be despised. It is exce g 
made hot and poured over hot potatoes for supper, or well-soaked haricot b me 
may be added to it and slowly cooked until the beans are quite tender and J i 
not broken. Season at the last moment, as salt hardens beans and so pre ons 
the cooking. 
A NEW GERM-DESTROYER. 
A corRESPONDENT of the Ceylon Observer comments upon a new germicide 
saying : Ozone when passed into water is found to kill the micro-orgams 
This discovery has been made in Lille, where the water is notoriously 28% 
two French gentlemen. ‘They are taking steps to purify the water supe 
that town. Ozone is another form of oxygen which is common in the all of 
an electrical discharge of lightning, and it is manufactured by a curre? 
electricity being passed through air. It has been already found that heat aoe 
up to the boiling point has not been an efficient germ-destroyer, so th 
discovery will be welcomed by the medical profession. This discovery 
step nearer to that landmark of civilisation to which Pasteur called atte? 
The first step is civilisation man made when he drove the wild animals 7°” 
his cities, the next will be when he has banished all germs. 
tion 
THE VINTAGE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
THERE is, unhappily, a very poor vintage prospect this year in some 
more important districts. Even where frosts have not proved a scourge ies 
vigneron, the dry weather has done a great deal of harm. In those C&P”. 
where most damage was done by frost, the yields are in many cases 80 pore 
to be hardly worth mentioning. At Yalumba, for instance, the crop in the, tet 
vineyard will probably not reach five tons, and Smith and Sons have, 10 brig x 
years, had 60 tons from the same area. I’rom all over the Angasto? 
Tanunda districts come very much the same deplorable accounts, ane, 14 
growers deserve all sympathy in their trials. The one small bright spoU™ 
picture is the fact that winemakers are paying largely enhanced prices for gree 
Mataro is fetching £3 a ton, and no one needs to be told that at this price abt 
business pays the grower if the crop is a good one. There is no reason to do 
that it pays the maker also; and as the shortage of grapes has had little Ee 
with the increased prices, they will probably stand at least as high next He a 
The fact is that winemakers’ stocks are getting dangerously low, especially F 
view of the expansion in business which Federation is expected to bring # helt 
Therefore, it behoved the makers to encourage the growers to extend t er 
vineyards, and better prices are already having this effect. Prices of the bee i 
varieties of grapes have not been raised to the same extent, and some 0 t i 
not at all, but, as the bulk of the vines in South Australia are the cheape? oa 
heavier-bearing kinds, the rise has affected nearly everyone. That being ‘he 
the despondency one would look for in consequence of the poorness ° 
of the 
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