310 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Supr., 1901. 
HOW TO CURE PORK. 
W. F. Harvard writes to Farm and Ranch:—I have always been s0 
‘successful in my curing that I have never lost any pork since I began the plan 
thirty years ago. At the time I learned it I lived in Florida, where it ig very 
difficult some winters to save meat. The plan is this: Just as you get the 
hogs dressed proceed at once while the meat is warm, and cut it up and salt it 
‘down in a box or something, using plenty of salt. Try to get it salted while the 
‘animal heat is in the meat, and let it stay in a bulk twenty-four hours and then 
take it out and spread it all night. Early next morning pack away, Covering it 
with salt, and it will keep. I don’t care what change comes in the weather. 
Remember now, if you kill the hogs to-day, salt as directed and let it be in salt 
until the next night, which will be about twenty-four hours. If the weather 
is yery cold it won’t hurt to lie thirty-six hours. “The explanation is this: The 
animal heat in the meat acts as a conducter of the salt. It will strike through 
the meat in twenty-four or thirty-six hours while it is warm, but it is hard to 
get the salt to strike after the meat is cold. Let it stay in salt about sixteen 
days and take it out on a cool day, dip it in hot water and hang up. If you 
follow this plan you will never have any spoiled meat. When the time comes 
to spread it, do so, regardless of the weather. 
ANGORA GOATS. 
The fleece of an Angora goat weighs from 3 lb. to 5 lb., varying according 
to quality, and the quality varying with the purity of the breed. (The fleece 
_of the buck weighs from 6 lb. to91b.) Half-breds scarcely pay for shearing, 
while the fleece of the nearly pure Angora ranges in value from ls, 3d. to 
1s. 8d. per Ib. ; 
Say the average fleece weighs 4 lb., at an average price of 1s. 6d., each 
fleece then produces 6s., then on 300 acres sufficient goats may be reared to 
yield a gross income of £900 per annum. Shearing at £1 per score would 
amount to £150, and this with baling and freight would be the principal item 
of expenditure. Very little expenditure need be incurred for forage, because 
the animals in good, scrubby country, well stocked with ‘shrubs and crass of 
different kinds, easily pick up their own living in the bush. Besides the 
mohair, the skins are valuable, and there is always surplus stock for sale. 
The owner of 160 acres could, however, make a very good addition to his 
income by keeping merely 50 Angoras, allowing them plenty of run. The 
mohair from these would be worth £20 per annum, besides which the increase 
could be sold, and as time goes on the old goats could be replaced by young 
stock, and the skins of the former at 1s. 8d. per lb. would add to the income 
from the flock. A skin weighs from 4 1b. to 5 1b. On most hill-farms of any 
extent there is to be found a proportion of stony or scrubby country useless for 
grazing either sheep or cattle, but on which goats would thrive and look after 
themselves, hence it would be to the advantage of anyone owning such land 
to start a small flock of these valuable animals. 
THE MOHAIR INDUSTRY. 
The breeding of the Angora for the production of mohair is, perhaps, just 
as great a study asis the merino sheep and its fleece. The same peculiar qualifi- 
cations are the requisite accompaniments to success, but the usual drudgery of 
management is claimed by the Cape farmer to be less with the Angora than 
with sheep, and thus the goats are often used as leaders for the convenience of 
working flocks of the latter. One of the most important proofs of purity and 
quality in the Angora is the character or curliness of the hair, and all young 
stock that do not possess this to a marked degree should be rejected from the 
stud flock. Evenness and fineness of quality, length of staple, and evenness 
