FOREWORD BY GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. 



The following Bulletin by ^Iv. E. Jarvis is of sncli importance 

 that its immediate publication is deemed advisable even though the tests 

 made have been on the laboratory scale and not in the field. The urgency 

 of remedial measures in connection with the most serious pest that sugar- 

 cane is subject to in Queensland is so great that the preparatory 

 methods suggested should be put into operation on a field scale at the 

 time advised — viz., about three weeks after tlie first general appearance 

 of the beetles. Tliis Bureau will also have tests made on the field. The 

 cheapest method of sowing coM'-pea would be by a seed drill such as 

 the ' ' ^liss Dixie. ' ' 



