104 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Fes., 1899. 
With good soil, a plentiful water supply, and intelligent care, first-class 
cauliflowers can be grown in many parts of Queensland; and there is money in 
the business, as immense quantities of this vegetable are annually imported 
from the southern colonies. If they canbe grown at a profit there, and 
shipped up here, it should be possible for us to grow them at a profit here, as, 
of course, being nearer to the market, we are enabled to place them for sale in 
better condition than those coming from Melbourne or Sydney, which, in 
addition to being some days in transit, are also considerably knocked about in 
handling. Some of the farmers in the Logan district have already awakened 
to the possibilities of cauliflower-growing; they grow first-class crops, and 
find no difficulty in disposing of them at good prices. 
JADOO FIBRE. 
Wir reference to our article on Jadoo fibre in the October number of the 
Journal, we are now in » position to give more particulars concerning this 
remarkable product. 
We at that time stated that we did not know what the article was, but 
that we were informed that it was not a manure. On this point we have 
received a letter from Mr. W. R. Virgoe, Brighton, Victoria, who has lately 
been appointed sole agent for Australasia. 
_ Mr. Virgoe had read the article, and now writes :— 
_ Tn your article on Jadoo, you say ‘you do not know what Jadoo really is,’ 
I did not until this last month, but I am now in possession of the detail of the 
process of manufacture, which I now give for your information, omitting the 
exact proportions of the ingredients, which, however, I am willing to also 
furnish, if desired. Jadoo (pronounced Jah-doo) is, I understand, an Indian 
word, meaning ‘ magic.’ | 
“ Now, as to its not being a manure, owing to my assertion to that effect, I 
have great difficulties with the Customs in South Australia and Western 
Australia, as on that ground they haye imposed a 15s. duty, which I am trying 
hard to get removed, and, as you will see by the particulars herein, I think it 
must be deemed,a manure. At any rate, I shall for the future call it a 
fertiliser. 
“The foundation of the Jadoo fibre is absorbent peat moss, a small sample 
of which I send you under separate cover. 
“Tn a large boiler partly filled with water the following ingredients are put 
in yarious proportions :— : ; 
“Soot, pink gypsum, bonemeal, phosphoric acid, potash, nitrate of soda, 
sugar. 
“The boiler is then filled up with the peat moss in a dry state, and the 
whole is kept at boiling-point for thirty minutes. 
‘The mass is. then taken out and stacked. ‘To it is added yeast, and the 
mass is fermented, and kept in that state, and at a certain temperature for a 
month or five weeks, when it is fit for use. 
“The Jadoo liquid is made in the same way, but without the use of the peat 
MOSS. 
“The Jadoo Company admit that Jadoo is still only in its infancy, and that 
scientific research may vastly improve it.” ; 
The accompanying illustrations are from photographs taken on a tobacco 
plantation in the United States, on which Jadoo was used as a soil and fertilis- 
ing medium. We are indebted to Mr. Reg. E. Finlay, London, late manager 
of the Queensland Investment Company, for the photographs. 
