358 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Szpr., 1901. 
Parish of Moggill and Indooroopilly, county of Stanley (Gold Creek and Moggill 
Creek Drainage Areas). 
Parish of Boonara, county of Mackenzie (on the leased part of Boonara Run). 
a uote of Enoggera and Indooroopilly, county of Stanley (Mount Coot-tha 
eserve). 
Parish of Oxley, county of Stanley (Chelmer Recreation and Water Reserve). 
Parish of Hewittville, county of Livingstone (Reserve for Water, Emu Park). 
Parish of Ossa, county of Carlisle, Seaforth. 
Parish of Cressbrook, Bowman, and Neara, county of Canning. 
(See Proclamation of 8th February, 1899.) 
List of Native Birds Protected throughout the whole year. 
Cassowaries Honey Eaters Moreporks or Owls 
Cockatoos (black) Ibis Night-Jars 
Cranes Kestrels (Nankeen) Owls 
Cuckoos Kingfishers (including Parrots (Grass) 
Curlews (land) Laughing Jackasses) Pheasants 
Dollar Birds Kites Robins 
Doves Larks Spoonbills 
Dragoon Birds (Pittas) Magpies (Organ Bird) Wagtails (Shepherd’s 
Emus Magpie Larks Companions) 
Finches Martens Wood-peckers 
Herons Minah Birds Wrens 
(Compiled from the Proclamation of 8th February, 1899.) 
List of Birds subject to operation of Acts (Protected during Close Season). 
Bitterns Hawks, Brown Rails, Land (all species) 
Bower Birds (all species) Insectivorous Birds, All Rails, Water 
Bustards or Plain Tur- Lyre Birds Regent Birds 
keys Megapodius (Tallegalla or Rifle Birds 
Curlews Scrub Turkey) Satin Birds 
Dottrells Native Companions Swans, Black 
Ducks, Wild (of any Pigeons, Wild (all species) Waders, All 
species) Plovers (all species) 
Geese, Wild Quails 
The reserves in the counties of Aubigny and Cavendish are for the protec- 
tion during the whole year of the following :—Tallegallas, all Pigeons, Emus, 
Regent Birds, and Quails. 
The Acts are in operation during the whole year in the Petty Sessions 
Districts of Cairns, Cardwell, Croydon, Ingham, and Mackay, as regards the 
following :—All Waders, all Insectivorous Birds, including Brown Hawks and 
Native Companions. 
VEGETABLE SPONGES. 
Luffa egyptiaca, Mill. (0. cylindrica, M. Roem.), is the botanical name for 
one of the Curcubitaceew which is often seen growing in our gardens as a 
curiosity. No one appears to be aware that it forms an important article of 
export from Japan to London, Havre, Hamburg, San Francisco, New York, 
Shanghai, and Hongkong, to which ports over a million of these vegetable 
sponges are annually exported. They grow as freely as their congeners the 
pumpkin, gourd, cucumber, &c. In Japan they are grown in large areas, 
climbing on trellis-work. Each plant bears four or five fruits, and an acre will 
produce some 24,000 sponges. ‘They are harvested in September. In the State 
of Queensland they grow to perfection on almost any sort of soil, and with no 
care whatever. Mr. Ad. F. Moller, writing to the Zropen Panzer, recommends 
their being grown in the German colonies for export to Hamburg. 
When young the Luffa is as good to eat as a young marrow, but as it 
grows it develops too much fibre to be eatable. ans 
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOWS. 
The Editor will be glad if the secretaries of Agricultural and other Societies 
will, as early as possible after the fixture of their respective shows, notify him 
of the date, and also of any change in date which may have been decided on. 
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