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any commendation. The samples are tastily labelled, and are inviting to the 
eye. The great feature is that the whole of these appetising més are the 
product of Queensland’s land and water. 
Tn the same bay Messrs. Spry Bros., of Flowerdale Apiary, Rocklea, 
exhibit a fine trophy of honey in glass and tin, a colony of bees in a glass case, 
and a nucleus hive of Italian bees. 
An exhibit of great interest to sugar-growers was that set out in No. 
Bay. The canes were so displayed round the walls that each could be 
separately examined. They were all carefully labelled, and thus no mistake 
could be made in the varieties. 
Special notice should be taken of the manner in which Mr. E. Cowley, 
the Kamerunga State Nursery at Cairns, had arranged his exhibits. These, 
six in number, were displayed in narrow cedar cases, made from Cairns timb 
on the spot. They were very well-grown canes, and were labelled respectively 
Tanna, Kew, Shemei, Moore’s, Lahaina, Fiji. . 
From the Mossman River, Messrs. Davis, Rose, and Wolfleben sent some 
very fine specimens of Rappoe, Meera, Striped Singapore. 7 
From the Mowbray River, Port Douglas, Messrs. Dyason, Montgomery, 
and J. Moffatt sent samples of Cheribon, Meera, Elephant, New Guinea A (a 
very short-jointed cane which would scarcely pay a mill-owner to purchase), 
Lahaina, Striped Singapore, and New Guinea. 4 
Messrs. Stewart, Pitt, and Dinnie, of Childers (Isis), contributed very ine 
specimens of Rappoe and Malabar cane-plant and ratoon. a 
A collection of manufactured sugar—white crystals, loaf, brown, and 
invert sugars—was shown by the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company ; and in the 
same place Mr. D. Jones, of Goodna, had some grand samples of broom millet, 
eminently suited for the market. ; 
In this section Mr. William Dunn, of Beenleigh, shows a sheaf of 
Natal Grass, a fodder which is eaten with avidity by cattle. Those who hay 
foresight enough to provide against a severe drought or winter would do w 
to give this fodder plant the attention it deserves. 
In Bays 39 and 40 there are glass cases containing beans and nuts of many 
descriptionscollected by the Department of Agriculture ; roots, barks, leaves,and@ 
gums of economic value—all clearly labelled and separated from each other. 
Here also are several varieties of pop corn, maize, wheat, barley, and oats, and 
large collection of fifty-five samples of woods from the Herberton district, notab 
a well-polished slab of what is locally known as pinkwood. A model 0 
olive oil press and mill is also to be seen, and with them one of the Esparte: 
On the walls is a collection of well-executed enlarged photographs repre- 
senting various phases of cvlonial country life by Mr. Wills, artist to the: 
woomba districts. The soils show a section of six feet from the surface, 
giving a clear view of the substrata in the various localities. Hach pillar 18” 
surmounted by a vase containing a sample of the products grown on the sou 
beneath; and asa complete chemical analysis is appended to the several soll 
Srna a more instructive object lesson could not have been presented to the — 
armer. 
Adjoining these is a glass stand containing samples of many descriptions 
of wheat grown in the colony. 
