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perfectly display them. They consist mainly of Allora Spring Wheat and 
bearded wheat, the whole being surmounted by a fine sheaf of bearded wheat. 
Messrs. Roessler Bros.’ show of pickles, jams, jellies, preserved fruits, 
tomato sauce, orange wine, and limejuice is a unique feature, showing as it 
does to what a pitch of excellence the preservation of our fruits and vegetables 
has been brought. The pickles especially present a most attractive appearance, 
anda rapid expansion of this particular industry cannot fail to eventually 
obviate the necessity for the imported goods. 
Messrs. I’. Lakey and Sons have a trophy of cornflour, for the manufacture 
of which farina they have special facilities on their estate at Pimpama. 
No. 32 Bay is occupied by a trophy from the Queensland Cotton Manu- 
facturing--Company, Limited, Ipswich. Here we see cotton in several 
t colours, towelling, calicos, 
varieties of manufacture-—such as yarns of differen 
the raw state after ginning. The Lockyer 
cheese-cloth, &e.—and also in 
Agricultural and Industrial Society, whose exhibits are also in charge of the 
advantage in Bay 33, and 
Agricultural Department, are exhibited to great 
consist of a trophy of very neatly constructed miniature bales of oaten, wheaten, 
and lucerne hay; and also of another composed of maize in the cob (most of 
millet, sorghum, imphee, Cape barley, Setaria 
the varicties being named), 
germanica, Kaffir corn, oats, lucerne seed, and Allora Spring Wheat. ‘There are 
» wheat, panicum, &c., together with fine sweet 
also to be seen sheaves of oats 
potatoes, pumpkins, &e. 
Yet another important society placed ay 
was the exhibits of the Eastern Downs Society, Warwick district. These were 
placed in Bay No. 34, and shown to much advantage. Twelve named varicties 
of wheat, rye, oats, and pearly barley in sample bottles, and also in sacks in bulk, 
are shown. Flour, bran, and pollard, the product of the Warwick flour-mill, 
are not wanting; neither is the ubiquitous maize wanting. A fine trophy of | 
Mr. Jacob Kirchner’s wines from his celebrated Assmanshausen Vineyard is 
conspicuous for its well got up samples. Here may also be seen honey in tins 
and bottles, together with beeswax, samples of coal, limestones and marbles 
lished and in the rough, tobacco leaf from Killarney, and a fine collection of 
fourteen photographs of the Warwick district, surmounted by sheaves of 
barley and wheat. The Warwick exhibit would be incomplete without the 
Presence of the fine products of the Yangan Cheese Factory. The trophy 
consists of Cheddar cheese, made up into different sizes. This cheese has 
achieved a celebrity which makes it difficult } 
_ the demand. Rennet is also shown. Mr. J. \ 
- Apiary, and Mr. J. Carey, of the Pioneer Apiary, Killarney, also forwarded 
‘exhibits of honey neatly got up in 2-lb. and 7-Ib. tins, 
In Bays Nos. 36 and 37 may be seen one of the completest collections of 
instruments and machinery used by apiculturists that we ever remember to 
have seen. This collection ig exhibited by Mr. H. Ty, Jones, of Melbonum 
‘Apiary, Redbank. It not only comprises all the appliances necessary for 
successfully carrying on the interesting occupation of the beekeeper, but also, 
_ by means of books dating back as far ag 1691, gives us an insight into the 
crude methods adopted by our forefathers in the production of honey. Here 
We are brought to a recollection of the old country by the sight of the old 
familiar straw hive, Amongst the modern appliances are: A machine’ for 
“Mnaking wax foundation, honey-extractors, an uncapping can, frame hives, 
supers, smokers, &., &e. The exhibit is well worth y of a visit from intending 
or even from established beekeepers, even without reference to the fine trophy 
of honey got up ready for market in the whoiesale and retail forms. Passing 
on our right a partition covered with fine stalks of maize in cob from the 
Agricultural College at Gatton, we are attracted by an exhibit of purely 
colonial produce, that of Mrs. B. Skinner, O’Connelltown, Brisbane. The 
excellence of the preserved meats, of the soups—turtle, béche-de-mer, and 
mullagatawney—and of the jams, jellies, and preserved fruits shown in this 
collection are too well known in Queensland and in the other colonies to need 
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