THE AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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I believe that this yeax* the rivers 

 lugagaue, Ingogo, and Lotene were 

 stocked. 



Copy of letter from Dr. H. Beckt'drd, 

 Grahamstown, Caj^e Colony, Decem- 

 ber, 1900. 



"About 1894, Dr. Walt. Atherstone 

 caught, at the Kowie West Pier, a fish, 

 which, on examination, proved to be a 

 Salmon (Salmo Salar). 



(Sgd.) H. BEOKFORD, M.D." 



Farmers' Conference. 



ELEVENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



THE eleventh annual general meeting 

 of the Natal Farmers' Conference met 

 in the Y.M.C.A. Hall on the 16th inst., 

 Mr. T. Hyslop in the chair. The proceed- 

 ings were fully reported in the daily 

 Press of the Colony. There were also 

 present : Mr. W. J. Mirrlees (vice-presi- 

 dent), and tne following delegates : — 



Maritzburg: P. D. Simmons, J. H. 

 Potterill ; Durban : F. F. Churchill, Geo. 

 Armstrong ; Umvoti : V. Verton and W. 

 Slatter ; Weenen : H. Blaker ; Rich mond : 

 A. Cooper, J. Marwick ; Ixopo : A. Stone; 

 Lion's Rivor ; B. Hutchinson, W. Adams ; 

 New Hanover : E. Peckham, J. A. West- 

 brook ; Inanda : J. Polkinghorne, L. 

 Acutt ; Noodsberg Road : H. Rosenbrook, 

 F. Reiche ; Howick : J. Hyslop, J. Parker; 

 Nottingham Road : B. Greene, W. Hen- 

 wood ; Richmond Road and Camperdown: 

 J. D. Alexander, D. Vjalcolm ; Richmond: 

 Peter Flett, W. Comrie ; Mooi River : G. 

 R. Richards, G. L. Sinclair ; Klip River : 

 R. Horsley, F. R. Bloy ; Ixopo : C. E. 



Hancock ; Underberg : F. A. Hathorn : 

 Dundee: W. Craig, F. Turton ; Farmers' 

 Club : Capt. Montgomery, B. B. Evans ; 

 Lower Tugela : Col. Addison, T. T. Colen- 

 brander ; Little Tugela : F. King, J. G. 

 Hattiijgh ; Gourton : W. C. Stockill ; 

 Upper Tugela : G. L. Coventry, J. W. 

 Starton ; Upper Biggarsberg : A. S. Car- 

 barns, A. R. Brown ; Malton : W. Baynes, 

 W. R. Comins ; and M. S. West (secretary). 



Experimental Farming. 



Under the auspices of the Farmers' 

 Conference, Mr. W. J. Mirrlees, of Ton- 

 gaat, on the evening of the 16th inst., de- 

 livered an interesting lecture in the 

 Y.M.C.A. on "Experimental Farming." 

 Mr. Hyslop presided. At the close of the 

 lecture questions were put and answered, 

 and the thanks of the audience were con- 

 veyed to Mr. Mirrlees by the chairman, 

 who expressed the hope that similar 

 lectures would be a feature of future 

 meetings of the Conference. 



Central Sugar Mills in Queensland!. 



THE following is taken from an article 

 on central sugar mills in The Queens- 

 lander :— Apart from the private capital 

 invested in connection with these central 

 mills, the State has already advanced 

 £496,045 — roundly speaking, half-a- 

 million of money— to assist the cane- 

 growers in their endeavours to minimise 

 the employment of coloured labour. The 

 whole of the ramifications of the industry, 

 both in private and public euterprize, 

 show the necessity for a proportion of 

 coloured labour, but a small amount 

 when compared with the enormous { 



benefit the industry is to the white 

 population. Of the money expended 

 £349,582 has been distributed within and 

 £146,463 outside the State. The figures 

 carry their own lesson. Of the half- 

 million, £386,696 has been spent on mill 

 machinery, buildings, tramways, and 

 rolling-stock, and £109,075 in wages to 

 Europeans, the erection of mill machinery 

 and buildings and rations. Of the total 

 expended, not one penny has gone to pay 

 for coloured labour. It will be well if 

 that point is fully studied. 



Now, it is very important for those 



