180 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Ave.,1898. 
best milking cow; for the cow showing the highest percentage of butter-fat 
according to the Babcock tester; for the best bacon pigs, farmers’ pigs, and 
Berkshire boar. Further special prizes are offered for the best kept and 
cultivated garden, orchard, orangery, or vineyard; and also for the best 
farmstead, to include homestead, dairy, and outbuildings, fencing, cultivation, 
crops, garden, orchard, stock, poultry, and implements. In both cases the 
prize is the society’s gold medal, and in the former also one year’s Australian 
Lropiculturist. We especially commend this departure on the part of the 
society to our farming friends. We had the honour on one occasion to win 
the bronze medal of the Queensland National Association for the best cottage 
garden, and we well remember the anxiety with which we awaited the decision 
of the visiting judges after weeks of earnest patient labour, rewarded by a 
favourable decision. 
The entries closed on 16th July, thus giving fairly sufficient time to 
intending competitors to get rid of weeds and everything unsightly, and to bring 
the garden up to a fair standard for a prize which should be looked upon by 
all cultivators as worthy of special efforts to carry off. 
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOWS. 
Tue Editor will be glad if the secretaries of Agricultural and other Societies 
will, as early as possible after the fixture of their respective shows, notify him 
of the date, and also of any change in date which may have been decided on. 
