162 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Juny, 1901. 
They do not allow the scale to live two days, and it is never killed with 
cyanide. It is done with kerosene and cold water. They never heat the 
kerosene. It is very much cheaper than cyaniding, which is very expensive. 
It has to be done at night when no dew is falling, and it was only the other 
day that the cyaniding plant had been lying, not for a week or a month, but 
for three months, unable to go on with its operations owing to dews and rains. 
5'| Mr. Artuow (Brisbane): My point was that, if by some method or 
= device, fruit sent to the market could fetch a 25 per cent. higher price, it 
: would pay the fruitgrower and increase production. That could be done by 
judicious picking, packing, and marketing. I give you no theories. The point 
is that I wish you to market your fruit now, not with these theories of cases, 
for they will come later, but with the present wants and necessities of the 
markets in view. A large firm had printed some thousands of almanacs set up 
in Chinese. The whole lot were left on their hands, however, because the 
groundwork was green, a colour the Chinaman does not like, and I just quote this 
to show what a little it takes to make or mara market. We must place our — 
d fruit on the market as it is needed. Let it be done simply and well. 
Mr. F. J. Jounson (Palmwoods): The main point of my few remarks 
will be to thank those gentlemen who have answered the questions I wished to 
= find out. I maintain that the Maroochy district is one of the best for the 
=f culture of citrus fruits. 1 noticed that some gentlemen seemed to take 
- exception to my remark about the Spanish case containing from 400 to 700 
=i oranges. Youcan believe me there are plenty of such cases seen daily in 
=} Liverpool. England is to be our market, and the sooner we can get there the 
better. Mr. Jones quoted some low prices prevailing in Liverpool, but he did 
not say whether they were Spanish or Queensland oranges. 
= Mr. Jonrs: Messina oranges. 
=| Mr. Jounson: Queensland oranges, I have not the slightest doubt, are 
= the best in the world. I do not believe that any of those oranges you see on 
a the table can be exceeded in quality by any in Spain. Queensland oranges 
= would arrive on the English market just at the time oranges are required— 
_} namely, in the hot months. Queensland oranges would then be at their prime. 
= As to the merits or demerits of cyaniding, that is a question that I shail leave 
= to Mr. Benson. 
: In reply to Mr. Ridley, Mr. Benson stated he had been to Sydney on the 
subject of the cyaniding of oranges, and he trusted that arrangements would 
be made by which the present regulations insisted on by the New South Wales 
Government might be modified. 
The Hon. D. H. Datrymete: I think we must compliment the readers of 
the essays upon their high quality. They dealt with the orange-tree, its growth, 
its pruning, its culture, the preparation of the fruit for market, and also the 
result in sending it to other parts of the world. I think if we had time perhaps 
— these gentlemen would be entitled to a vote of thanks for their excellent papers. q 
: One speaker said Bowen had not been visited by the Instructor in Hruit 
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Culture. I shall bring the matter before Mr. Benson’s notice privately. Mr. 
— Benson spoke of the necessity for having a law to impose a standard measure- 
= ment upon the fruit cases which were shipped from the State. That might 
=* be advantageous. I presume it is so, or else Mr. Benson would not have recom- 
mended it. But I would point out that no legislation on the subject has been 
= successful in any of the Southern States. Mr. Benson told us that the reason it 
was thrown out in New South Wales was because the fruitgrowers themselves 
were not disposed to have it. I can only say that, if 1 thought it were 
desirable to bring forward a regulation for the purpose of putting coercion upon 
the fruitgrowers and compel them to make their cases in a particular fashion, 
I think I should lack justification if the fruitgrowers said they did not favour 
it. he only justification seems to me to be an almost unanimous desire on 
the part of the fruitgrowers. Such a law does not appear to exist in , 
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Australia, and I should like to ask Mr. Benson whether it exists in America,’ 
