304. " QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ocr., 1898. 
There are two sets of 6-feet rollers with revolving knives in front, five 
multitubular boilers with automatic firemen, and the evaporating plant is quite 
up to date. The management of the mill is in the able hands of Mr. W. 
Lyle, who has had great experience in South America and other sugar 
countries, with Mr. C. Campbell as chemist and Mr. E. Thatcher as field 
manager. 
Mr. W... J. Taylor is chairman of directors, and Messrs. G. A. Waite, 
C. Roberts, G. W. Pott, J. Chapman, and A. Fuller compose the board of 
directors, with Mr. A. P. Perkins as secretary. 
Chemistry. 
THE NEW CHEMICAL LABORATORY AT THE QUEENSLAND 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, GATTON. 
By J. C. BRUNNICH, 
Agricultural Chemist. 
As the new chemical laboratory at the Agricultural College, Gatton, has 
now been for some time in working order, it will undoubtedly interest some of 
our numerous readers to hear alittle more about the building and its internal 
arrangement. 
The laboratory has to fulfil a dual purpose of being a laboratory for the 
practical instruction in chemistry of the students of the College, and of being 
the analytical and research laboratory of the Department of Agriculture. 
The Department of Agriculture has for along time sorely felt the want of 
an analytical laboratory of its own, and some of the unavoidable analytical 
work had to be carried out in the past years by the Government Analyst, who, 
however, was already overburdened by work from various departments. 
Now, however, that the laboratory, after unavoidable delays in erection of 
the building and internal fittings, waiting for the arrivals of chemicals and 
apparatus, testing and making up of the chemicals, setting up of the apparatus, 
&c., &., is really completed, the department may be justly proud of their new 
establishment. The laboratory quite equals, with ata to building and 
fittings, the departmental laboratories in the southern capitals; with regard to 
colleges, however, it is far ahead of the similar institutions of our neighbouring 
colonies, where in most instances the establishment of laboratories at their 
agricultural colleges has so far remained a pious wish. 
In the construction of the building, of course, economy was studied, and 
the building, which undoubtedly for various reasons should have been of stone 
or bricks, had to be erected, like the rest of the College buildings, of wood. 
Ventilation and light were chiefly studied, and for this reason the (in colonial 
buildings) customary verandas were left out, the windows being simply pro- 
tected by small-sky-shades. Still, even in its simplicity, the building is an 
ornament to the College grounds, and gives the impression of being built to a 
purpose. 
