1 Apri, 1899,.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 
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Acres, 
1890 a: oe AX ric p25 9,015 
1891 rt; ex) ai rx + 258,004: 
1892 ue “re zi #3 ... 260,828 
1898 7 eles. 8 . 252,075 
1894: tn iss) res tse ss 284,552 
1895 sy a5 bot OK: ex ZASTS) PAs} 
1896 i, petal why p Rate sem S560775 
1897 ro aes ... 886,259 
The dairying industry, which is not touched on here, has expanded to 
even a greater extent; in fact, it is to the growth of this business that much 
of the increase in the acreage under crop for hay is due. 
ENSILAGE. 
Proressor Massy, of the North Carolina Experimental Station, U.S.A., 
says :—In making ensilage we long ago found that the pressure and tramping 
yas not only of no use, but a positive detriment to the food. As long ago as 
1886 I abandoned any effort to compress silage in the silo, finding that we had 
better results from allowing the mass te settle of itself, simply keeping the 
whole level and well pushed into the corners as filledin. JT next abandoned the 
placing of a wooden cover over the top, finding that I got-betterresults froma mere 
covering of cut straw ; in fact, the silage will make its own cover ag the mould 
spreads through the top layer, but itis better to make this of some cheaper 
material. In fact, we find that with a silo tight at sides and bottom it is easier 
to make good silage than to spoil it. ‘The array of screws, ropes, and presses 
illustrated in some Australian journals is all expensive and useless. We find, 
too, that a wooden silo above the ground is far better than any stone or brick 
building either under or above the ground. The waste from decay of silage in 
stacks will soon pay for a building, and we do not favour the stacking. All we 
want is a building, no matter how cheap, and into this we cut the corn when 
fairly eared. We cut slow or fast as suits our convenience, stopping if need be 
aday or two ata time, but never stopping because of rain, for we have eut 
when it was dripping wet, and had the best of results. We keep one man in 
the silo to Jevel the mass as cut, but do not allow any tramping that can be 
avoided. When full, we cut a thin layer of straw over all, and the work is 
done.—Australian Pastoralists’ Review. 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 
Tie institution of Agricultural Colleges in the United States was attended 
with many difficulties, all of which have been triumphantly overcome. As 
early as 1858 Mr. Justin S. Morrill, a member of Congress, introduced a Bill 
providing for such institutions, but it was vetoed. Four years later a similar 
measure was approved of by President Abraham Lincoln, and by this Act 
11,000,000 acres of laud were divided amongst the several States, 30,000 acres 
being given for each representative in Congress. New York received 990,000 
acres, some of the smaller States receiving only 90,000 acres. 
Professor W. H. Henry, of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture, gives 
the following interesting account of the establishment and working of the 
colleges, which is published in the Breeders’ Gazette, Chicago :— 
In his plea Mr. Morrill pointed out the fact that rich men out of their 
abundant means had provided schools for the education of those who were to 
follow the professions, while no one had made provision for the higher educa- 
tion of the children of the industrial classes on which the nation must rely for 
its strength and support. Since no one had cared for these, he argued, it was 
the duty of the General Government to make liberal provisions in the way of 
schools for technical training. He especially urged this from the agricultural 
