1 Mar., 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. I. 
Public Announcements. 
Tur Editor will be glad to receive any papers of special merit which may 
be read at meetings of Agricultural and Pastoral Associations in Queensland, 
reserving, however, the right to decide whether their value and importance 
will justify their publication. 
Tur Queensland Agricultural Journal will be sent free of cost to all 
agricultural societies, schools of art, locai libraries, and country newspapers 
in the colony, and to agricultural newspapers and institutions of importance 
in other portions of the world. Secretaries of agricultural, horticultural, 
pastoral, and kindred societies in Queensland are invited to furnish the 
Department of Agriculture with information as to their respective membership 
in order that the necessary number of copies of the Journal may be supplied. 
PLANTS AND SEEDS FOR DISTRIBUTION. 
LOGWOOD. 
Tur Curator of the Brisbane Botanic Garden states that there is an unusually 
large quantity of Logwood seed for distribution. Also that a large number of 
young, healthy, and clean seedling trees will be available for distribution in 
May next to persons desirous of planting good and new varieties of this valuable 
dye-wood. 
[Crrcovnar No, 2.] 
ODhe Queensland Agricultural College. 
THE SECOND HALF-YEAR BEGINS 12TH JANUARY, 1898. 
EXAMINATIONS FOR ADMISSION, llth JANUARY, 1898. 
On 15th December of the present year, the Queensland Agricultural College 
will have concluded the first half-year of its existence. The total number of 
Students enrolled, to date, is thirty-three. This half-year has been characterised 
by real progress in the work the College has been created especially to 
perform. Substantial advancement has been made in the studies of the Course, - 
while, upon the College Farm, many important improvements testify to the 
zeal and industry with which practical work has been conducted. 
OBJECTS.—The specific work of the College is the direct education of 
Queensland youth in the Practice and Science of Farming. To this end, work 
upon the Farm and Gardens, Orchards and Shops is emphasised. Students are 
not merely taught about Farming; they are required to perform in honest 
day’s works the whole round of Farm operations. The College just now 
offers special advantages to Students in what may be called Pioneering, 
embracing such work as Clearing, Grubbing, Fencing, House and Barn Building, 
and all the operations involved in bringing forest land under cultivation. 
EQUIPMENT.— Besides a force of seven teachers, devoted to as many 
special subjects, the equipment of the College (in part) embraces— 
A Farm of 1,692 Acres; 
Dormitory and Dining Accommodation for 56 Students ; 
One Main College Building, with Lecture Rooms, Reading Room, and 
Library ; i 
