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Agriculture. 
THE QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
On the completion of the last college term (13th July), Professor E. M. Shelton, 
Principal of the College, resigned that position. A successor to carry on the 
work so ably initiated by Mr. Shelton has been found in Mr. John Mahon, late 
Instructor in Dairying to the Department of Agriculture. The secretarial 
work has been placed under the charge of Major A. J. Boyd, Editor of the 
Queensland Agricultural Journal. Mr. Boyd will still retain the editorship of 
the Journal. Mr. Mahon, as Principal, should prove a fit man for the position. 
He is well known throughout the Australian Colonies as an able agriculturist, 
and one of the most scientific experts in dairy work in Australasia. Major 
Boyd is an old agriculturist, orchardist, and sugar planter, and has also had 
much experience in scholastic work, and in the management of grammar schools 
in Queensland. The College staff will remain unchanged; thus no sudden 
changes wiil be made in the general curriculum as initiated by Professor 
Shelton, and the work will continue to be carried on on the same lines as 
heretofore. 
Much regret is expressed at the retirement of Mr. Shelton, who has done 
yeoman service to the farmers of Queensland for over nine years. 
OPENING OF THE SECOND TERM. 
The Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. V. Chataway) returned on the 14th 
July froma brief visit to the Queensland Agricultural College at Gatton. The 
visit was prompted by the fact that on the previous day the institution was 
reopened, after vacation, for the second term, and under the new joint manage- 
ment of Messrs. Mahon and Boyd. The Minister found everything ready for a 
start, with a good muster of students. The term opens with thirty pupils, six 
of the number being new ones, the remainder “old boys.” They accorded 
the Minister a fitting welcome, and were addressed by Mr. Chataway in the 
lecture-room. 
Mr. Caraway said he had an unpleasant matter to allude to, and, being 
unpleasant, he would say it first. The later days of the term which ended in 
the middle of May had been disgraced by an outbreak which he hoped would 
never be repeated. The attendance this term was smaller in consequence of 
that outbreak, about which painful subject he need only say that any exhibition 
of rowdyism or any deliberate infraction of the rules must, in order that the 
good name of the College and of the students might be preserved, be met with 
unishment. It might be possible that the most guilty had escaped detection. 
f they had done, he hoped they would bear in mind the escape they had 
had, and be models of good conduct in the future. Since last term, as they 
knew, Mr, Shelton had resigned his position as principal. To him had been 
largely due the general plan of the College. e was enthusiastic about it, 
and had worked hard for its success. He knew that there were many of 
them who would deeply regret his departure. A new Principal, Mr. Mahon, had, 
however, been installed in his place. Under him he (Mr. Chataway) felt sure they 
would make progress. He would, he thought, impress them, as he had impressed 
others he had come in contact with during his ten years’ residence in Queens- 
land, with the fact that what he talked about he understood. Mr. Mahon had 
captured the hearts of the grown-up farmers, and he would to a certainty 
capture theirs. Most of them, he hoped, would some day be farmers. He 
(the Minister) had read only this week the report of a certain large college in 
America (the Michigan Agricultural College), and he saw that there 24 per 
