TO 



THE HONORABLE ARTHUR HUNTER PALMER, 



PEEMIEE OF QUEENSLAND, 



This little work is, by permission, respectfully dedicated, as the 

 testimony of the Author that the Government of Queensland 

 recognise, and are willing to foster Agriculture, as one of the prin- 

 cipal sources of wealth to the Colony 5 and that, by their sanction 

 to the issue, from the Government Press, of this Handbook to the 

 prosecution of a new and important industry connected with the 

 tilling of the soil, they include technological teaching in the boon 

 of free education enjoyed by the Queensland colonist. 



L. A. B. 



