1 Jan., 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 9 
Dr. Coss, in writing of this farm, says :— 
“T am glad to state that, in spite of the recent unfavourable weather 
(November), the Wagga experiment crops in the main are looking very well. 
The seed wheat plots and paddocks in particular are looking very well, and 
promising a yield much higher than round about. The orchard is in tip-top, 
condition, and a good crop from very young trees seems assured. The grapes 
are blooming well. The experiment work has never before yielded such 
valuable results. ‘The new elevator and laboratory are near completion, and 
have been universally admired, and an official opening of same is talked of. 
The recent addition, by which this farm has been made nearly half as large 
again, is being surveyed and fenced. One thousand five hundred acres have 
just been ringbarked, to be used in connection with sheep-farming and horse- 
raising. Applications for. intending students are coming in satisfactorily, 
the fresh acquisitions to commence work in January, when a new course under 
an enlarged staff of teachers will begin. The early spring wheat sown in 
August on land ploughed in latter part of July, and which had been cleared 
of timber only three months earlier, is considered to be a great lesson by all 
the farmers who have seen it.” 
The wheat was the variety known as “Improved Allora Spring,” and was 
reaped in November. The yield was 20 bushels per acre. The land had been 
manured with superphosphates at a total cost of 10s. per acre. 
