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Farm and Garden Notes for July. 
As a general rule and with a fairly good season the field operations for 
the month will consist of preparing the land for the maize and potato crops, and 
continuing sowings of oats, barley, rye, &e. Prairie and other grasses may still 
be sown if this has not already been done in March and April. In suitable 
localities early potatoes may be planted. Rice may also be sown during this 
month. 
Inthe Kitchen Garden full sowings may be made of cabbage, carrot, 
broad beans, peas, lettuce, radish, onions, beetroot, eschalots, parsnips, &e. 
Rhuburb, asparagus, and artichokes should be planted out. 
In the Flower Garden there is plenty of work.to be done in thinning 
out and replanting misses in the beds sown and planted out during the 
past two months. Roses may still be planted. Sow everlastings, annuals, 
larkspur, antirrhinum, dianthus, cosmia, chrysanthemum, tricolour, petunia, 
coreopsis, &c. 
In the Orchard, grape vines and fruit: trees should be planted, and growing 
trees should be well washed with a good strong compound, as a preventive 
against disease. Also prune all fruit trees, including vines, if not already 
done in June. 
Public Announcements. 
Tim Queensland Agricultural Journal will be sent free of cost to all 
agricultural societies, schools of art, locai libraries, and country newspapers 
in the colony, and to agricultural newspapers and institutions of importance 
in other portions of the world. Secretaries of agricultural, borticuitural, 
pastoral, and kindred societies in Queensland are invited to furnish the 
Department of Agriculture with information as to their respective membership 
in order that the necessary number of copies of the Journal may be supplied. 
(|\Crrcunar No, 1.] 
Che Queensland Agricultural College, 
OPEN FOR THE RECEPTION OF STUDENTS, ist JULY, 1897, 
EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES, 30th JUNE, 1897. 
Tur College offers to Queensland youth a Direct Education in the Practice and 
Science of Farming. ‘To carry out the intentions of the Governmént in this + — 
respect the School has been liberally equipped for its proposed work. This 
equipment (in part) embraces— : 
A. Competent Staff of Teachers ; 
A Farm, consisting of 1,692 acres of land ; 
Five Commodious Buildings ; 
Dormitory Accommodation for 56 Students ; 
Three Breeds of Dairy Stock ; 
Implements, Apparatus, and Library. 
Plans for a Commodious Chemical Laboratory and Lecture-room haye 
already been approved by the Minister. This building, it is expected, will be 
ready for the use of Students of the Second Half-year, 
