102 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Frs., 1898. 
The most successful men at the present day are those who have not got 
all their eggs in one basket. Mixed farming is the foundation of success, and 
I have never known a practical man who adhered to this method fail, always 
having something to sell. Many farmers have grown maize continually—in 
fact, the business has formed part of their nature; but the time is now at hand 
when the production of many other crops that the soil may be adapted to grow 
must be entered upon. The man who adheres to maize-growing alone cannot 
succeed. i 
Dairying, pig-rearing, poultry-breeding, vegetable-growing, and even 
fattening a few crossbred sheep, when holding a farm of a fair size, are very 
profitable undertakings. Skeep, if changed from various small paddocks, will 
eat the rank vegetation and at the same time manure the land. 
The careful and successful farmer is always producing anything and 
everything that there is a profit to be made from, and also in co-operating 
with his neighbours and sharing his knowledge, knowing as he does that it is 
by an exchange of ideas and co-operation with each other that every farmer at 
the present day must look to to further his interests in this life. The farmer 
should always grow such crops as his soil is best adapted to produce. Always 
avoid growing crops or producing stock that are a drug in the market. The 
man who possesses energy and skill combined, will quickly reach the top of the 
ladder of prosperity. 
Never keep an animal on the farm that will not give you a reward for 
what it eats. Jn all cases avoid the “ scrubber” cow, horse, pig, or any other 
such animal. The man who keeps inferior stock will be poor all his life, and 
will always be dissatisfied with his returns. Better keep'one good animal than 
three bad ones; too great an impetus cannot be given to this all-important 
matter. The man who is not a judge of stock should quickly learn, and 
amply a person to do his buying until such time as he becomes competent 
himself. ; 
In speaking on agriculture, perhaps I have been trespassing on forbidden 
grounds, especially as we have Professor Shelton, at the Agricultural College, 
and Mr. Benson, Director of State Farms, whose duties include the imparting 
such knowledge. However, the Professor’s time is fully occupied at the 
College, as is also Mr. Benson’s in connection with the fruit business; conse- 
quently, my exceeding my duty as Instructor in Dairying is, I think, quite 
pardonable. : 
THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY. 
The phenomenal progress made in this industry during the last few years 
reflects very great credit on those who are engaged in the business, 
Not many years ago the majority of the butter supplied to the Brisbane 
markets by our dairymen was made in a very primitive fashion, the spoon and 
basin taking the place of the churn, and the pan system of cream-raising was 
carried cut in every dairy, if I may use the word “dairy”; for, at the time I 
refer to, there were hardly any buildings worthy of the name to be found in 
any part of the colony. ‘To-day we have cream separators, refrigerators, and 
all the most elaborate appliances that money can procure; tons of butter are 
being turned out ina few hours—results which, under the old obsolete methods, 
would be almost impossible to accomplish, even at 50 per cent. greater cost, and, 
when manufactured, the butter would be totally unfit for export owing to the 
want of uniformity in quality. 
These reforms are evidence of the great energy displayed by the so-called 
slow Queenslander. I am also in a position to be able to state that some 0 
the factories and creameries that are to be seen in this colony are equal to the 
dest to be seen in any part of Australia, which is evidence oF our not being 80 
far behind the times as some people imagine, and that we have fully realised 
the importance of the industry. Iam confident we are not going to lag bebind 
our southern neighbours, who have had about twenty-five years’ start of us. We 
have been greatly handicapped here by many intelligent men entertaining an 
