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tans capacity, the silage at Warren consisting of chaffed panicum 

 and green maize-stalks, and at Gindie of chaffed green maize- 

 stalks and sorghum. 



Northern Queensland has only one farm — at Kairi, near 

 Atherton — for its 158 million acres; but in Southern Queensland, 

 with an area of 135 million acres, there is one such farm at Her- 

 mitage, near Warwick, on the famous Darling Downs, and 

 another at Roma, in the south-western part of the State. On 

 all of these farms experiments are made with a view to dis- 

 cover the best methods of fertilising suited to the surrounding 

 country. Here may also be mentioned the prickly-pear experi- 

 mental station at 13ulacca, which I have described more fullv 

 elsewhere. 



General Summary. 



To summarise briefly : .\gricultural Colleges exist in all the 

 States except Western Australia, and the curricula of these col- 

 leges are drawn up wath the well-dehned purpose of turning out 

 men who will go on the land. In almost every State, instruction 

 classes are available for those already actively engaged in farm- 

 ing, but the scattered population is the cause of these classes 

 not being up to the United States standard. If there is one thing 

 more than another that strikes the visitor to the Australian agri- 

 cultural educational institutions, it is their thoroughly practical 

 character : farmers, and not quasi-scientists are what they aim 

 at evolving. Equally satisfactory is the fact that the bulk of 

 the students come from the mercantile and professional classes. 



{Read, July ■^th, 1917.) 



B. P. J. MarcHAND. — The announcement of the 

 demise, at his residence, " Clairvaux," Rondebosch, C.P., on the 

 5th October, 1917, of the Rev. Bernard P. J. Marchand, B.A., 

 Commissioner of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Cape Pro- 

 vince, and President of Section D of the South African Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, caused considerable sur- 

 prise as well as sorrow throughout South Africa. Mr. Marchand 

 was apparently in the best of health when he attended the 

 annual session of the Association at Stellenbosch in July, and 

 delivered his presidential address ; in fact, his death followed on 

 an illness of only a few days' duration. 



The cause of education had always appealed to Mr. 

 Marchand, and, in addition to having been chairman of the 

 Girls" High School at Rondebosch, he had, at the time of his 

 decease, just completed his term of office as chairman of the 

 School Board of the Cape Division. 



Bernard Marchand, who, needless to say, was of Huguenot 

 stock, was born at Wellington. C.P., in 1853, and received his 

 education there and in the Stellenbosch gymnasium. He headed 

 the list at what would now be called the matriculation examina- 

 tion of the Cape of Good Hope University, and subsequently 

 entered the South African College, where he graduated in 1873, 



