272 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Srpr., 1897. 
Farm and Garden Notes for September. 
Gnrowrya crops should be kept clean, and those requiring earthing-up, should 
be attended to. A vigorous use of the hoe, horse or hand, will tend to save 
future labour. Sow maize, sorghum, imphee, prairie-grass, panicum, tobacco, 
and pumpkins. Plant potatoes, and earth-up those already growing. Sweet 
potatoes may be planted if the cuttings can be obtained. Cane-plantin 
should be now carried on vigorously. Plant out coffee, ginger, arrowroot, an 
yams. 
Tue Kitchen Garden will well repay all the attention now bestowed upon it. 
This is the month for general sowings of most kinds of vegetables. Plant out 
rhubarb, Jerusalem artichokes, seakale, and asparagus. ‘Transplant cabbages, 
cauliflowers, eschalots, &c., for a succession. Melons, cucumbers, vegetable 
marrows, custard marrows, tomatoes, and egg-plants may all be sown. TRosellas 
should also be sown in sheltered spots. Keep the crops clean, and manure with 
liquid manure. It is a good thing to sow newly dug beds with salt. The 
action of salt on the soil is not understood, but applied as a top-dressing it 
appears to check a tendency to rank growth. Cabbage especially is benefited 
by salt, but used too liberally it leads to the formation of a pan and renders 
soils sterile. 
In the Flower Garden continue to plant bulbs as directed last month. Protect 
the plants as much as possible from cold westerly winds, which may still occur. 
Keep a good lookout for slugs, which should be destroyed whenever detected. 
Toads are very useful helpers in the garden and bush-house, and should be 
encouraged to take up their quarters there. They are perfectly harmless in 
spite of their ugliness. 
Finn up all the vacancies with herbaceous plants. Sow zinnia, gailliardia, 
amaranthus, coxcomb, balsam, sunflower, marigold, cosmea, summer chrysan- 
themum, coreopsis, portulacea, mesembryanthemum, calendula, marigolds, &c. 
Pranr out bulbs, as dahlias, gladiolus, amaryllis, tuberoses, ismene, crinum 
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pancratiums, &c., also cannas. 
