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[1 May, 1898. ‘QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 419 
Last year we grew here, on the Experiment Farm, a few acres of it, with 
excellent results. It does not grow high—from 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches—but 
it stools well, giving an abundance of juicy stems and flag excellent for green 
fodder. The ears, about 3 inches long, contain six rows of seeds. ‘Those seeds 
are really skinless, and resemble so much a dark wheat that even millers have 
mistaken them for wheats. The Nepaul Bailey is extremely prolific, giving 
sometimes frota 1,200 to 1,500 seeds from one seed. It is excellent for fowls 
and horses, and when fed to pigs it produces an excellent bacon. Being 
hard and flinty, it is not a good malting barley. Its great merit, however, is 
its earliness, the plant being ready to cut for green fodder in from eight to ten 
Hecke: In this part of the colony it is better sown from March to August, 
inclusive. ‘ ; 
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A SUCCESSFUL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. 
Tan Harmer and Stockbreeder and Chamber of Agriculture Journal (London) 
says :—A. recent dividend of 5 per cent. does not look like proclaiming the 
failure of co-operative farming. ; 
This has reference to the Aspatria Co-operative Farming Society, Limited, 
which, last year, received from sales £14,218; and a net profit of £146 18s. 1d. 
was made. Added to the balance brought forward, this allows of a dividend of 
3d.in the £1 on purchasing members’ accounts, and 5 per cent. interest on 
share capital, £65 being carried forward. The share capital of the society is 
£2,021, and during the twenty-eight years of its existence the capital has been 
returned to the shareholders three times over. 
EXTRACTING MOISTURE FROM WHEAT. 
A new process for artificially extracting moisture from wheat was put to a 
carefui test in Berlin recently (says the Times). he trial was carried out at 
the instance of Mr. Yesburgh, M.P., who sent over fifty quarters of English 
wheat to be submitted to the process. The result was entirely satisfactory, 
over 6 per cent. of moisture being taken from the wheat—which was a very 
dry sample in excellent condition, while the heat to which it was subjected 
‘could not possibly affect it injuriously. ‘The prineiple of the process—namely, 
that of drying it under a vacuum—has been applied to many articles of 
commerce, and the result of this trial is to show that it is equally adapted to 
Wheat. It is hardly necessary to point out that the subject is one of great 
interest to farmers, who would be greatly benefited by the provision of 
facilities for getting their wheat into condition, particularly in a wet season. 
HORSES CLICKING. 
Crick1nG consists in a horse catching the front shoes with the hind feet when 
travelling. A eure for this unpleasant habit is to under-drive the pony, 
keeping it, however, weil up, and not allowing it to slouch along. Besides this, 
shoes may be specially adapted to the hind feet, having the clips at the sides 
instead of at the toe, the front being made thick, and brought back bekind the | 
point of the toe. ‘This shortens the foot without danger to the sensitive parts 
within. When the heel is struck the noise is not heard, but the wear shows 
whether the action is improving. 
COFFEE REFUSE. 
Tur Vropicat Agriculturist, Colombo, says that a good business is done 
between Colombo and the Persian Gulf ports in coffee husk, which is practically 
refuse thrown away by planters after pulping and clearing the coffee berries. 
The Arabs, especially, make use of the huskin place of the civilised preparation 
of café noir. his is worth noting by our coffee-planters, and we will 
endeavour to obtain more information on the subject before long. 
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