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1 Sepr., 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 215 
Answers to Correspondents. 
PRESERVING CHILLIE PEPPERS. 
EH. Bryant, Bli Bli.i— 
Question—Please give me’ advice on the curing of chillies and 
capsicums. 
Answer.—There are two simple methods of curing them. When the 
chillies are ripening, go over the field once a week, picking all the 
ripe ones. Leave a long stem on the pod. Expose the pods to the 
sun for a day to toughen the skins and stems. Then, with a long, 
slim needle, string them through the stem on strong twine 8 or 9 
feet long. When the twine is full, hang it up in a dry, cool shed 
where there is plenty of ventilation. Be careful not to string any 
poor or damaged pods. When dry, store them in a dry, cool room, 
hanging them on poles or nails. 
Another, and a good planif the chillies are to be exported, is one 
which we know by experience to be good, as we have kept them for 
twelve months without their changing colour or strength. Make a 
fairly strong brine. Fill a stone jar or a keg with the chillies, and 
pour the cold brine over them, filling the vessel to the top. Bung 
down closely. In two or three months, or even after a longer 
interval, either strain the brine or make fresh, carefully washing out 
the vessel. They will keep fresh for a long period. 
Zanzibar chillies are quoted by the London Grocer at from 
34s. to 378. per cwt. 
Capsicums range from 16s. to 80s. per ewt.; long peppers, 55s. 
to 58s. per ewt. 
FLAX SEED. 
S. F. Crarke,, Pittsworth.— 
Question 1.—Are there two sorts of flax seed or linseed (which is 
correct)? If so, which is the best for grain for commercial 
purposes P 
Answer 1.—Yes. The best to sow for grain is Linum usitatissimum. 
Linseed for growing in this State should be imported from Ireland, 
and can be procured from Richardson Bros. and Co., 80 Donegal 
place, Belfast. Import sufficient only for a first-year’s crop. The 
yield being about 12 bushels to the acre, the seed saved from 1 acre 
would sow about 6. Messrs. Woolfe Bros., of Traralgon, Victoria, 
grow annually about 200 acres, and you might procure seed from 
them if you do not care to import. 
Question 2.—Is there any demand for cow pea ? 
Answer 2.—There is a large demand for cow pea. The price in Brisbane 
is from 10s. to 15s. per bushel. Average yield, from 15 to 20 
bushels per acre. See advertisement in this issue. 
GREEN BONES AND DRIED BLOOD. 
Enquirer, Toolburra— 
Question.—Can_ bone feed, also dried blood, for feeding fowls be 
rocured from storekeepers generally, or at meat works only. 
hat is the probable price of each? 
Answer.—Most produce merchants stock bones and dried blood. The 
best place to obtain the articles is at some meat works. Messrs. ' 
Baynes Bros., Queensport Meat Works (office, Stanley street, 
Sou Brisbane), sell them from 6s. 6d. to 10s. per ewt. respec- 
tively. 
