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Here are also to be seen samples of cotton in process as already described. 
An instructive exhibit in this section is that of the Queensland Woollen 
Company, Ipswich. 
On the wall is displayed a map of Queensland, on a scale of 10 miles to 
Linch, showing the areas suitable for wheat, maize, and sugar-cane, and also 
indicating the localities where experiments have been made with a view to 
testing the capabilities of the soil and climate for wheat-growing, by which it 
will be seen that West and South-west will rapidly take a foremost place in 
this branch of agriculture. 
The Herberton Pastoral, Mining, and Agricultural Association have here 
an exhibit: of kauri gum, which exists in some quantity in the district. 
The Agricultural Department displays aiso a large qu 
fibre and textile plants, together with an array of bottles of 
pared from several varieties of eucalyptus 
the West Indian walnut. 
It would be impossible to describe here the 425 varieties of timbers shown 
by the Department in Nos. 42 and 43 Bays. They comprise nearly all the 
Queensland varieties, and are shown both polished and in the rough. <A frame 
of sixteen varieties of wood is shown in this section by Mr. R. A. Tills, of Red- 
lynch, Cairns district. India-rubber (Ceara), nardoo, native asphalt, pichuri, 
and other native curiosities in plant life and manufactures are also shown. 
Several fine enlarged photographs by Mr. Wills adorn the walls of this 
side of the bay, representing various aspects of the Gatton Agricultural Col- 
lege—Filling a silo, stooking maize, cutting maize, and ploughing at the 
College. 
In Bay 45 a glass case of models of fruit executed by Mr. Alder, taxider- 
mist, deserves more than passing notice. The mangoes, persimmons, tomatoes, 
limes, custard apples, and capsicums are wonderfully natural. Duplicates of 
these models of Mr. Alder’s skill and taste have been sent to Eur 
of the magnificent prospects of the fruit-growing industry in Que 
plums are marvels of the art, the delicate bloom being sh 
Some 200 specimens of modelled fruit, packed in neat boxes, have been placed 
in charge of Mr. Lyons and Mr. Randall, immigration lecturers for this 
colony in Ireland and England, and will serve to show that tho soil and climate 
of Queensland are unrivalled in any other part of the world in enabling the 
colonists to grow to perfection every known variety of fruit. ° 
Here also are samples of various kinds of bark used for tanning processes. 
They comprise green, black, and hickory wattle—Acacia linifolia and Acacia 
aulacocarpa. 
In this section is a piece of brocade made from Queensland silk, which was 
much admired by Her Majesty the Queen when shown to her some time ago 
in England. 
A variety of descriptions of cotton in the pod, manufactured cotton, pre- 
pared cornflour, wheat, Kaffir corn flour and meal complete the exhibits in this 
bay. 
ul In Bay 44 are found reminders of that enthusiastic student of the Queens- 
land fibre plants, the late Mr. A. Macpherson, of Brisbane, in the shape of a 
frame of Queensland fibres and paper made from them. ‘There also are 
samples of cloth dyed with vegetable dyes »repared from plants grown in 
Queensland ; rice grown in the meeinourhad of Brisbane ,Maroochy, Wallum- 
billa, Cairns, and Port Douglas. In a more distant part of the section the 
antity of prepared 
essential oils pre- 
‘ope as a proof 
ensland. The 
own in perfection. 
Cairns Chamber of Commerce show coffee-trees in full bearing, and coffee in 
all its stages of ripe berry, parchment, silver skin, roasted, ground, and dried 
berry. Growing rice, cleaned rice, and paddy, cocoanuts, sugar-cane, pines, and 
other products of Northern Queensland are guarded by that singular denizen 
of the Northern scrubs, the crested cassowary. This exhibit also comprised 
ginger, bird’s-eye chilies, béche-de-mer, turtle-shell, dressed and polished 
timbers of the district, as well as a large cedar log cut from a tree giving 
80 feet in length of marketable logs, 
, and a sample of oil prepared from — 
