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Pumpxins.—Five varieties: Cattle, Crown, Ironbark, Button, and Japanese. 
Saguasuxs, &c.—Ten varieties. 
Porators.—A very good sample of White Sweet potatoes was noticeable, 
reaching 16 lb. in weight. Hight varieties of English potatoes were benched, 
ul demonstrating the qualities which make up a marketable potato—viz., 
uniformity in size, good keepers and boilers, with a minimum of waste. 
Roots —These included two varieties of Mangels and four of Beet- 
root (one of which was grown from seed introduced by Mr. Finucane from 
Greece). Swedes were of good quality and size. These, with beet and mangels, 
rove a great stand-by for different classes of stock during the winter. 
Table turnips were also of good size and q uality, being represented by Purple- 
top, Stone, and Orange Jelly. 
Other garden iyo such as cabbage, spinach, lettuce, &c., was exhibited, 
all proving that these useful additions to the table should be more largely 
grown by farmers, who, with exceptions, neglect this branch to a certain extent’ 
Topacco.—Some excellent leaf of Burley was shown, put up in commercial- 
sized ‘ hands,” showing that the lighter classes of Downs soil will produce good 
leaf. ; 
pe, Sapreusi.—Some well-srown plants of the Old Man variety were present. 
This excellent stand-by for stock in time of drought deserves to have more 
attention paid to it. 
MiscELLankous.—Sponge and Bottle Gourds and seed, Sunflower, Buck 
Wheat, Plax, Rape, &e. The latter crop thrives well, and, if erown once for stock 
feeding and as a green manuring and rotation crop, would continue to be grown. 
The excellence of the mutton produced from feeding a large percentage of rape 
is proverbial. 
Hoopsrurrs.—The following meals were exhibited: Cob and Maize, 
Maize Wheaten (prepared from seconds), Sunflower, Gow Pea (seconds), and 
Linseed. 
Cuarr.—Cow Pea, Lucerne, and Wheaten, both new and old, Red Clover, 
Vetches, Amber Cane, K angaroo-grass. 
_ Stmace.—a_ box of Sweet Amber Cane was shown, taken from a stack 
weighted by means of the “ Spanish windlass” system. 
Priokny Pear.—Plants of this pest were shown which had been treated 
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with Dixon’s Exterminator, and they well demonstrated the efficacy of this 
treatment, leaves and roots being completely dried up and dead, 
Samples of the different classes of soil to be found on the farm, together 
with subsoil, were noticeable. 
Views of the house, stables, &c., were placed in conspicuous parts of exhibit 
in order to convey to the outsider some idea of the surroundings and objects of 
this institution. 
THE HERMITAGE EXHIBITS. 
We have obtained from Mr. C. Ross, the manager, the following 
particulars concerning the Hermitage exhibits:—In offering a few remarks on 
the collection exhibited at Bowen Park last month, I do not intend inflicting 
a categorical description of each individual product dis layed, but to take a 
cursory view of the whole (noticing a subject here and eee as representing 
part of the result of operations carried out on the Hermitage State Farm for 
the past two years. Although all the exhibits were grown on the farm during 
the past few months, it would be unfair to discuss their merits without con- 
sidering that the pigeon results are the outcome of the initiatory work of 
breaking up and thorough cultivation the land had received during the previous 
