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house. Vigorous, healthy youth requires no stimulant beyond its own natural 
vital forces. For yearson the farm I touched nothing but tea, water, and 
home-made hop-beer, and I was always able to do a heavy day’s work either at 
felling scrub, splitting, or, what was harder than all, pulling a heavy boat laden 
with 5 tons of potatoes to Ipswich. 
Tf your farm is near a railway station, you will require a spring cart to 
fetch and carry. Such carts were very dear in my time, so I bought a pair of 
wheels and an axle and built a cart myself. It was arough affair, but it served 
its turn for the time being. Once the stumps are out, you can lay down a few 
acres of lucerne. You should also at the earliest opportunity lay out a small 
orchard, planting such fruit trees as are suitable to your district. Fruit trees 
take time before they bear, but they keep on growing whilst you are working at 
other things orresting. If your farm is on the Downs, plant apples, pears, 
quinces, plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and even walnuts. If below the 
Range, plant citrus fruits, guavas, peaches, wild goose plums, mangoes, custard 
apples, persimmons ; grow also pineapples and passion fruit. In the Central 
and Northern districts your orchard, in addition to citrus fruits, should 
contain some purely tropical ones, such as jack fruit, mangoes, papaw apples, 
Duriens, &c. 
By and by you might plant a few suitable vines. 
A vegetable garden I haye not mentioned, as you will naturally think of 
growing vegetables, if only for home use. There is a great deal of money, 
however, in growing cabbages for the market where you have a suitable soil, a 
cool climate, and cheap carriage by water or rail. 
Questions on Lesson 1. 
1. How would you proceed to clear a vine scrub ? 
2, When cleared, what is the first crop you would plant? 
8. What fruit trees would you plant—(a) on the Downs; (4) below the 
Range ; (c) in the Central and Northern districts ? 
4. When would you stump scrub land ? 
5. What grass may be grown amongst the stumps ? 
AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION: SUGGESTIONS FOR THE 
CONSIDERATION OF THE FARMERS AND FARMERS’ ASSO- 
CIATIONS OF QUEENSLAND. 
By FRED. WM. PEEK, Loganholme. 
In addressing a few ideas of a practical nature to our farmers and 
producers, I do so because of my long association with those of our community 
who have struggled from the early days of this State’s history, and who, by 
their perseverance and toil, have been the chief factors in the progress of the 
State. It is to the man on the land, who faces the virgin scrubs and forests, 
axe in hand to clear the land and bring it under his control by careful toil and 
perseverance notwithstanding recurring adverse climatic conditions, that credit 
must be given. Queensland has many districts that can be pointed out 
with pride to the seeker for information, or to the intending settler, as 
landmarks of our State’s progress, where a few short years ago all was in its 
primeval state, and where are now well-kept farms—thriving townships— 
with ever-increasing businesses and manufactories, swelling the NState’s 
importance and wealth, and building up such institutions of lasting value, that 
speaks well for the wealth of soil and energy of our farmers and producers. 
One of the first things necessary in every small settled community of farmers, 
who desire to assist each other for the benefit of the whole, is to meet together 
at certain intervals for discussion, and by taking counsel together, comparin 
notes and experiences, to try to alleviate the hundred-and-one little troubles 
