228 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Maz, 1900 ; 
Hiprs.— Queensland bullock (heavy), 6d. per Ib.; light, oa 
53d.; New South Wales light bullock, 53d. per Ib.; horse, 7s. to 9s. each 
Sxrvs.—Sheep, 10d. per lb.; lamb, from 1s. to 5s. each. 
Furrep Sxins.—Kangarco, 11d. to 1s. 3d. per lb. Opossum, 5%: a 
6d. per dozen; 5 to 10 per cent. lower for first blue fine and first red § oan 
fine. Wallaby, 11d. to 1s. 3d. per Ib.; prices have risen by 15 pe ® 
Bear, 7d. to 9d. each; prices higher by 15 to 20 per cent. ' 
Tatnow.—On 6th January, mutton tallow, fine, brought from 298. 
per ewt.; medium, 27s. 6d; beef, fine, 27s. 3d.; medium, 26s. 8d. per CWe 
Horns.—Extra large, 52s. to 60s.; large, 40s. to 47s. 6d. ; mediumy* 
to 35s.; small, 12s. 6d. to 20s. per 100. sth 
mix" 
Boyrs.—Shanks, round, £5 to £5 10s.; flat, £3 10s. to £8 15s.; 
£3 5s. to £3 15s. per ton. 
General Notes, 
PREPARING TREE HOLES. 
Ty digging holes for the reception of trees, most people dig the sides ie 
down, and make the hole narrower as they reach the bottom. The consed!™), 
is that the tender rootlets, having no room to extend, when they reae 
comparatively smooth hard side of the hole, turn back upon themselves 
either form hard knots or grow up towards the surface until they Te antl 
softer upper soil, when they make a sort of straggling lateral growth. 
at the coffee-plant roots illustrated in this number of the Journal will § 
effect of roots meeting with hard substances in their downward gro call 
the effect is much the same laterally. A Californian University professor al 
attention to this simple matter, and says the proper way to dig the hole 4 ty 
be to have its sides perpendicular for the first shoyel-leneth, and below ‘ ot 
‘dig on a slant under the sides, so that the bottom of a tree hole 3 vot 
hot 
ae the 
diameter at the surface would be nearly 4 feet. In such a hole the 
rootlets, in spreading out, would be forced downward. A. uniform rule “at 
be adopted that the surface soil contained in the first shovel’s depth One atl i 
‘be laid on one side of the hole, and the richer surface soil can be place ted 0 f 
the roots where it can do the most good. If the uniform rule is adoP nett | 
throw the first shovel’s depth of soil to the north of the hole, mistakes 
‘never occur. 
A LUMBER-DRIER. 
Tux object of this invention is to provide a means for stacking lumber 8% jaf | 
heat passages or flues are formed within the body of lumber thus stacke ok | 
heat may be passed directly therethrough. In conjunction with this is * he | 
having a swinging framework adapted to receive and hold the lumbeh op 
framework being so journalled to the truck that it may be turned 10 ° ich q 
position for the purpose of loading, and afterwards turned to the positio? aft | 
the lumber isto occupy while being dried. The kiln isso constructed tha ‘ack | 
the frame is loaded and the stack of lumber completed upon it, the ming? | 
locked in place upon the frame with flues or passages formed by the P!)4pe | 
the lumber. The car or truck is then run into the kiln, and, fitting betwee oe rE 
sides, the heat from the heat pipes or other source of heat passes UP My gt | 
these sides, and is by them directed through the flues or passages W 10 iret | 
formed in the lumber, so that every part of the lumber is exposed to the™ — ; 
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