Publications. — Bulletin. — During the year tlie Department lias 
published and distributed a great number of pamphlets and leaflets, 
amongst which may be mentioned the report of the Agricultural 
Conference, Insect and Fungus pests by H. Tryon, and the Scientific 
Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Eanges. Judging from the eager- 
ness exhibited to secure these reports and pamphlets, and the interest 
shown therein, I would submit that the time has now arrived when 
the Department might issue a quarterly bulletin containing matters 
of interest to agriculturists. There are constantly being developed 
new phases of agriculture in which those engaged therein should be 
kept well posted, so as to be able to successfully compete in the open 
market with those already in possession of new conditions. A course 
of instruction such as these bulletins would scatter abroad, would 
entail a cost of a small sum annually for publication and of labour in 
preparation, but the results therefrom would, I believe, be of the 
highest value in the development of the agriculture of the colony. 
