512 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Nov., 1901. 
RED PICKLED CABBAGE. 
Cut the cabbage into slices on a chopping board. Set it upon a dish in 
layers with a sprinkling of salt over each layer. Let it stand for one night, 
then put it into a stone jar. To every 4 quarts of vinegar add 1 oz. of sugar 
and 2 oz. of mixed spice; heat this mixture almost to boiling point, and when 
cold pour over the cabbage, which must be well covered by the liquor. 
Itis fit to be eaten in seven days, although it improves with keeping, and 
should be of a lovely colour. 
CURE FOR EARACHE. 
Children are often liable to a severe attack of earache, and the remedy 
usually applied is hot oil. Try the hot middle of a boiled onion or place ground 
black pepper in a small piece of cotton-wool so wrapped up that the pepper 
cannot touch the ear. This will often effect a cure He hot oil fails. 
TO GET RID OF ANTS. 
Sprinkle the pantry and safe shelves with oil of penny-royal. The ants 
will in all probability disappear, but Australian ants are so pertinacious that 
the remedy must be applied at frequent intervals. 
AID TO FRUITGROWERS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
A despatch dated 15th September, 1901, has been received at the Foreign 
Office from the British Embassy at Newport, R. I., reporting that under the 
appropriation made in the last session of Congress to assist investigation b 
the Pomological Bureau, the Secretary of Agriculture is making an arrange- 
ment by which the Government enters into co-operation with dealers and 
exporters whereby a minimum net return per package is guaranteed on all fruit 
shipped and sold under the direction of the Pomological Department. Under 
this arrangement the exporter would receive the net proceeds of the sales— 
that is, all proceeds after deducting freight and other charges. If this net 
return is less than the guaranteed amount, the difference between the net 
proceeds actually realised and the guaranteed return would-be paid out of the 
money appropriated for pomological investigations.— Board of Trade Journal. 
PROFITS ON THE FACTORY SYSTEM. 
A correspondent of a southern exchange writes:—I recently received a cop 
of the balance-sheet issued by a Victorian factory for the year ending 31st May, 
1901. ‘The benefits accruing are graphically shown by the result of the year’s 
operations. After paying a dividend on the paid-up capital at the rate of 7 per 
cent., the profits of the year allowed of a further distribution to qualitied 
suppliers of a bonus of $d. per lb. on butter as per test. In this manner a 
further sum of £3,594 13s. 2d. was distributed amongst the lucky suppliers of 
this factory. J am also indebted to Mr. R. Crowe, the Victorian Government 
Dairy Expert, for particulars of the marvellous results achieved by another 
factory for the year ending 30th June, 1901. In this case, after paying a 
dividend of 7 per cent. on all paid-up capital, a bonus was given the suppliers of 
£4,478. In both instances a sum of over £1,000 was written off buildings and 
plant for the year. An extract from Mr. Crowe’s letter will show what 
co-operation and modern dairying is doing for the Victorian farmer: “I have 
no copies to spare of Camperdown, Glenormiston, Warrnambool, Grassmere, 
Farnham, &c. ; they all show a profit of cent. per cent. and upwards on the 
capital invested by the dairy farmers for the past year.” 
