334. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Ocr., 1899. 
Settled on his farm, the farmer began to clear, and as every acre was burnt 
off it was immediately planted with corn, pumpkins, and potatoes, beds of 
vegetables, and large areas of cabbages. Vines and fruit trees, pigs, fowls, 
cows, and bees followed. By the end of the year some 15 to 20 acres have been 
cleared. Meanwhile, crops have been harvested and sold, and the land 
replanted till regular returns from the cleared land came in yearly, and fruit 
trees, vines, and small fruits began to contribute their quota. 
The following extract from the books will show how things worked out on 
20 acres of cultivation :— 
£ 
5 acres of lucerne, producing 18 tons of hay at £210s.... 45 
2 “ potatoes °F Sie aincon ue tetO, 
6 » maize » 360 bushels at 2s. ... e350 
1 » __ Sweet potatoes, producing 10 tons at £2 an Bo 
Pumpkins sown with maize, 30 tons at £1 eis ro B0) 
1 acre cabbages, 500 dozen at 2s. per dozen’... 50 
2 acres green oats—feed for stock. 
4 acre onions, 5 tons at £6... ee, ‘as Hn po BW) 
% 5, swedes for stock. 
= 5, vegetable garden ats tr’ oe on BID 
+ ,, Strawberries, rosellas, &. ... fs; os ee Ud 
1, grapes, 2 tons at 1d. per lb. aa oe cos ‘Ubss th 
20 hives of bees, 140 Ib. per hive at¥d.... ise Pens 
20 hens, 3,709 eggs per annum, at 1s. per dozen ... er Ald) 
10 pulletsat1s. 6d. each  .., ri ar a ape Ook 
8 cockerels ,, _,, PS; ae or FS lededt en @l 
# acre bananas, 500 bunches at 1s. rn Pe, rc 45) 
400 Ib. butter at 1s. per lb. ... a ah vee poe) 
2 bacon pigs ... a oh rr) Ab a ar 8 
SOSCONNHARSSO SC SDOSD000% 
SSOSSOSOHOMSDO CGC CoocCeor 
8 suckers at10s. ... 
—— 
£412 18 9 
The vegetable garden brought in £36 between 28th September and 10th 
March—a little over five months. This is equivalent to about £72 per acre per 
annum, 
A small farmer at Warra, writing to this Journal, says:—‘I must say I 
have made a very good living during the last few years by mixed farming. I 
have been wine-making and growing potatoes, corn, and various kinds of fruit 
and vegetables. I started in 1885, and worked on the railway line till I got 
things in order on the farm, which consists of 160 acres. I only utilise 100 
acres, as 60 acres is still standing scrub; 15 acres are cultivated with ordinary 
are and 10 acres are devoted to garden and orchard. Last year 1 made 280 
allons of wine, which T sold at Gs. per gallon—£84. I sold 2 tons of grapes 
at 13d. per lb.—£28 5s.; onions brought me in £10; oranges, £18 ; pigs, £10; 
honey (1% tons at 2d. per Ib.), £28; other fruit trees, £12; milk and butter 
from 7 cows bring the total income to over £200. I work the farm with the 
help of my two sons, and we grow everything we require for our own use 
besides. 1 have now one acre of brown Spanish onions growing splendidly, also 
one acre of silverskin pickling onions. I ought to do well out of these, as my 
ground is particularly well adapted for onions. Last season I was late in sowing 
the seed, or I should have realised £20 per ton. The maize was a comparative 
failure; I only got 11 bags from five acres—a little over 8 bushels per acre. 
I should mention that my 10 acres of garden is divided as follows:—2 acres 
grapes, 4 acres fruit trees of various kinds, 2 acres of potatoes, 2 acres of 
onions. From this short summary you will see that 1 am making what [ 
consider a very comfortable living. 1 have been farming and gardening all 
my life with the exception of 12} years, when I worked at other pursuits to enable 
me to raise money enough to make a start. When I did start, people told me 
I would not be able to grow enough stuff to feed a snipe. Ihave proved them 
to be wrong. My land was all scrub, overrun with wallabies, and there was 
