130 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ave., 1902. 
“CLAIMING A ROAD. 
A correspondent asks :— 
Question 1.—A road runs outside my fence. People make a shorter 
road through my paddock. If I allow this for 10 years, can my 
road be proclaimed a public road ? 
Answer 1.—No. 
- Question 2.—If a funeral passes through my land without paying 
shilling fee, does the road become public property ? 
Answer 2.—No. An obsolete superstition. 
Question 3.—If a mailman passes through my paddock regularly without 
charge, does the road then become a public one ? 
Answer 3.—No. 
HOW TO MAKE ORANGE WINE. 
B.F.W.H., Island and Orchardist, Blackall Range— 
Question.—1. How is orange wine made? 
Answer 1.—Take halt a chest of Seville oranges (400); pare off the 
rinds, and put two-thirds of them into 6 gallons of water for 24 
hours. Squeezethe oranges through a sieve into a pan, and then throw 
them into another 6 gallons of water; wash them well in it with the 
hands, and when you have done so put in 6 gallons more water 
and let the whole stand till next day. For every gallon of wine 
put into the cask 33 lb. of loaf-sugar, and the liquor strained clear 
of any rind and pulp. Repeatedly wash the latter, and if more 
liquor should be required to fill up the cask, add these washings 
rather than pure water. Stir the wine daily till the sugar is com- 
pletely dissolved, and allow it to ferment for about 5 weeks. Add 
3 bottles of brandy, stop down, and after 12 months bottle. 
ANOTHER RECIPE. 
Gather the fruit when ripe. Peel the oranges. Put into a cask with the 
head out, and with a tap fitted near the bottom. Pour on boiling water to 
cover the fruit. Mash the pulp with your hands, and then let the mass stand 
till the pulp rises to the top and forms a crust in three or four days. Then 
draw off the fluid into another vessel, and to every gallon add 11b. sugar. Mix 
well, and put into a cask to work for a week or ten days, and throw off any 
remaining lees, keeping the cask well filled, especially at the commencement- 
When the working has ceased, bung it down. It may be bottled after from 
six to twelve months. You may also make the wine as follows :— 
Peel the oranges. Express all the juice in a press; strain. To every 
gallon of juice add 1 lb. sugar and half-a-pint brandy. Pour into a cask, but 
do not bung till it has done working. Then bung it close for three months and 
draw off into another cask. When it is fine, bottle and cork well. 
Question 2.—What portion of the bamboo should be planted? At 
what season ? 
Answer 2.—Take a portion of the root with a shoot just springing from 
it. Cut off the standing bamboo attached to the root about 2 feet 
in length, taking care that it has an eye onit. If planted in the 
spring, say September, the eye should shoot, but the shoot near the 
root will make the first wood. 
Question 3.—How can I make bread white and flaky like baker’s bread 
I bake 10 Ib. twice a week. 
Answer 3.—Try lime water. Five lb. of water saturated with lime used 
with every 19 lb. of flour produces in bread the same whiteness, 
softness, and capacity of retaining moisture as results from the 
use of alum by the bakers. It removes all acidity from the dough, 
coagulates the gluten, and the bread bakes well. 
