452 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 June, 1898. 
there may be heavy shipments Australia-wards in August, September, 
October of this year. Therefore we say accept the good prices now offered. 
If you have 5,000 bags, make up your mind to sell, say, 1,000 bags a month, 
and do it. If the market does’ by chance improve, you'll do better than if 
every farmer in the country holds on and millers have more offering to them 
than they can tandle.— Farm and Dairy. 
RICE IN THE NORTH. 
WE are informed that a rice crop on the Barron River, recently cut, gave a 
return of 2 tons per acre from twelve acres. We are not, however, aware 
whether this means return of “padi” or of cleaned rice. If the latter, then 
rice should prove a more paying crop than sugar. There can be no question 
that the climate and soil of parts of the North are eminently adapted to the 
cultivation of both hill and swamp rice. 
