152 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL.’ [1 Ave., 1898. 
Mucunas produce more seed when grown off than when allowed to trail along 
the ground. Asa green crop for ploughing in, it has a high manurial value, as 
it is rich in nitrogen, and this, combined with the large amount of organic 
matter it adds to the soil, renders it specially valuable for sugar land, 
particularly those containing a large percentage of oxide of iron, or of which 
the soil is of a heavy, plastic, or somewhat unworkable nature. 
So far as the Redland experience goes, the beans have been very free from 
the ravages of any insect pests, the most damage: having been caused by the 
larve of the Yellow Peach Moth (Conogithes punctiferalis), which bores into and 
destroys the immature beans in the pods, as it doesin the case of the Cow 
Pea, Velvet Bean, and several other pulses. : 
The bean is not edible, and I do not know of anyone in the colony who 
has tried the vines for fodder, but am of the opinion that they should make a 
good feed if well dried and then chaffed, especially if mixed with bran, chaffed 
corn or sorghum storer, or molasses. Further experiments will be conducted 
with this and other beans at Redland Bay, and careful records of same will be 
kept and, if deemed of sufficient interest, published. 
Dairying. 
MILK YIELDS. 
We have been favoured by Mr. W. Stephens, MDA; with the following 
results of the milking tests at the Sydney show, in New South Wales, as 
shown by three fine cows, which are amongst eight lately imported by that 
gentleman :— ; 
1896—“ Daisy” 
Took first prize at the Sydney show for the greatest yield of butter. A full 
account of her performances is contained in the Sydney journals about 
Easter, 1896. 
1897—“ Brossom”’ 
Came second in the Sydney. competition for this year, yielding 115 lb. of milk 
in forty-eight hours, resulting in 5:291 lb. butter. 
1898 —“ Nuearr”’ 
Was awarded first honours at the last show of the Logan and Albert Pastoral 
and Agricultural Society on 6th May, 1898, she having given 59 |b. of milk in 
twenty-four hours. At the Sydney show her record was 119 1b. of milk in 
forty-eight hours, with a butter yield of 4°63 Ib. 
Viticulture. 
VINEYARD NOTES. 
By E. H. RAINFORD, 
In the July number of this Journal instructions were given how to make and 
apply to vines solutions for preventing attacks of Anthracnose or Black 
Spot. Vignerons in the colder districts, where the movement of the sap takes 
place at a later period than on the coast, are referred to that article, and 
strongly advised to follow out those instructions wherever Black Spot has made 
its appearance. Although this disease may, apparently, be doing little damage, 
