44, QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Juny, 1898. 
want very serious attention, for under present circumstances it is no wonder dairy 
herds are distributors of disease. They require the closest inspection, more especially 
those from which milk is distributed through the communities. I said that I only 
intended reading a short paper; but I hope this is sufficient to create a discussion, 
and draw attention to the (perhaps unintentional) harm that may accrue from or 
through persons using the will or products from diseased cattle. (Applause.) 
__Mr. E. Byrueway (Gympie) complimented both Mr. Mahon and Mr, 
Coulson on their papers on dairying. From much of the discussion that had 
hitherto taken place, he thought many of them really expected too much from 
the Government, but he agreed with what Mr. Mahon said about the benefit 
of the Government brand being upon Queensland butter placed on the London 
market, and it would also be well perhaps to have someone appointed to see 
that that butter was marketed in the best possible manner. He thought it 
should be the study of all concerned to produce the best article possible, and 
to be got up in the best manner possible. As he had said that morning, an 
article well marketed was.half sold, and if their products were landed in 
London in first-class condition they would command top prices. He had given 
much attention to dairying in his own district; and in the establishment of 
factories, he thought a very important point was to equip them with plenty of 
power so that the extension of operations would not be restricted at any time. At 
the Gympie factory, of which he was a director, they had a 12-horse power boiler 
and an engine of the same power, and they expected to be able to have a big out- 
put. A good deal had been said that day about keeping capitalists out of farmers’ 
co-operative companies, but at Gympie they had a system, which had been 
suggested by the Agricultural Department, and which would, he thought, work 
very well. There they had two classes of co-operators among the shareholders 
—the producers and the capitalists—and as for these latter, he considered 
they were just as much producers as the other, as they produced the capital. 
He might add that at Gympie it would have been impossible to start the 
factory without the capitalist. Their total capital totalled up between £3,000 
and £4,000, and the collection of this sum in a single district from the farmers 
alone would be a very difficult matter. In this company the capitalists get 
interest for their money, and the producers the dividends or bonuses that may 
accrue from the business of the company, and the producers had also the 
privilege of buying out the capitalists. Myr. Mahon had been of the greatest 
assistance in the getting up of this particular company, and in concluding on 
this subject he trusted all co-operative factories, wherever established in the 
colonies, would be successful. 
Mr. W. R. Roztyson (Toowoomba) would have liked to have heard 
condensed milk referred to. There was a lot of this product imported into 
Queensland, there being a good market for it in the West, and in the near 
future doubtless some of their factories would go in for it. The existing 
import duty should be ample protection. Sterilised cream was another dairy 
product not yet raised in this colony ; in fact, he thought there were few towns 
in Queensland where a jug of cream could be bought, although sterilised 
cream from Denmark could be obtained in Sydney. In dairying, at any rate, 
the middleman was doing well. He probably got more out of the farmer than 
anyone else, and was in truth the bull calf of the industry. A good dairy 
buli was more than half the herd, and as long as mongrel bulls were allowed 
to roam about their lanes and fields they would never improve their herds. Mr, 
Cory had that day suggested to him, and he heartily approved of the suggestion, 
that the Government place a few Shire stallions, dairy bulls, and purebred 
boars at the Government Experiment Farms at Westbrook, Herinitage, &e. 
The service of these animals could be allowed to farmers at a small fee, and 
he had not the slightest doubt that a great improvement to the farmers’ live 
stock in the districts in question would result. These animals would be self- 
supporting, as the only additional expense would be the engagement of a few 
stud grooms to look after the animals. The present dairy stock in most parts 
of Queensland could stand a tremendous lot of improvement. 
