380 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL [1 May, 1902. 
boring. Hundreds of thousands of pounds annually in the past have been the 
loss sustained in the crop in America and elsewhere by this insidious pest, while 
our own losses in our early cotton-growing days in some bad seasons aggregated 
half the crop. Now, however, the production of Paris green so cheaply has put 
in the hands of the planter an effective and cheap means of destroying this 
enemy. The experiment conducted in the*cotton plot at Bowen Park ‘has 
substantially proved that the boll worm need no longer be feared as formerly. 
An application of Paris green mixed with fine wood ashes or flour is used. 
In Bowen Park an experiment recently tried, and proved satisfactory, was 
a simple application of Paris green and lime dusted over the plants. 
This process can be performed cheaply by mechanical means, or, as is 
often done in the States, by filling a couple of bags made of some coarse 
material with the arsenite (1 part to 50 and 100 is recommended) mixed 
with flour or wood ashes. Tie each bag on the end of a short pole. 
This, with a boy straddled on a mule or horse, dusts two rows at once by the 
lad riding between the rows. By this means a considerable area can be dealt 
with ina day Another form of applying the poison is to dissolve 1 lb. Paris 
green to 40 gallons water. This sprayed over the plants is also effective. In 
combination with dairying, this industry should succeed. It is not advisable to 
pick cotton in the early morning when dews are settled on the shrubs. : Now, 
this being usually the morning milking period, the family energy is bent 
in that direction, and subsequently, as the day advances, the sun’s action dries 
the cotton, and the process of gathering is carried on under pleasanter con- 
ditions. The picking being usually over by May or June, the fields may then 
be used as a grazing area for the farmer’s stock. This will usually be regarded 
as a good adjunct to his winter provision for the stock. In the old cotton- 
growing days our horses and cattle, when turned into the cotton-fields foraging 
among and on the bushes, got into the pink of condition, and what would 
have otherwise been a period of short-commons to them resolved itself into one 
of plenty. The farmer has thus until October the run of the fields without 
detriment to the crop, even if he determines to prune rather than plough and 
re-seed the area. 
American growers attach much value to this feature of grazing, for not 
only does it serve the purpose of helping the milk yield of the cows, but the 
pasturing of the area diminishes to some extent the insect pests that find 
breeding-room in the immature pods and foliage that remain on the shrubs, 
which are all eagerly devoured by the ‘foraging animals privileged to revel on 
the feed. 
I will conclude my paper by a few brief references to the important value 
of cotton seed as now recognised in the world’s industries, as this has a pros- 
pective value to usin Queensland especially. The Florida Agriculturist in a 
recent issue says :— 
Cotton seed is more rich in that which makes food than wheat. People are 
getting informed upon the subject, and are giving cotton seed its position with 
other grain. Here isa comparison and values of cotton and wheat. It is an 
instructive table :— 
Wheat, protein, 11°87 ; carbohydrates, 73°69; fat, 2°09; value, 1:00 dollar. 
Coun seed, protein, 17°57; carbohydrates, 10°82; fat, 20°19; value, 1:39 
ollar. 
The above table gives the number of pounds of food components and the 
analytical value of 100 lb. each of wheat and cotton seed, according to the 
methods in use by the. agricultural experiment station. It shows the sur- 
prising fact that, pound for pound, cotton seed has a greater intrinsic value 
than wheat. Neither is the bulk of the cotton-seed crop by any means 
significant as compared with wheat. There is raised in the southern States 
alone five-sevenths as many bushels of cotton seed as there are raised bushels 
of wheat in the whole of the United States. Last year there was a large acreage 
of cotton and wheat. Men who thought they were wise shook their respective 
