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and the gross receipts £46 3s. 10d. In 1896 he began to cultivate 60 rods, 
and in that year his expenses were £10 16s. 4d., and his receipts £60. Last 
year his outlay was £8 7s. 11d., and he sold his vegetables to the tune of £66 
2s. 11d. Practically all kinds of vegetables are grown on the plot to which I 
allude, and there is a ready market locally for the produce. 
“There has always been a good deal of talk indulged in regarding the 
producing powers of the land with reference to the support of population. It 
struck me while I listened to the record of what one man, assisted by occasional 
outside labour, can accomplish in his odd time, that much more might be done 
than is at present represented in the reclamation and cultivation of what would 
otherwise be regarded as waste and unproductive land. Mr. Rider Haggard is 
engaged in showing how agricultural depopulation proceeds, and affects the 
prosperity of rural districts. I wonder if it has ever occurred to him and to 
other investigators that the real secret of the failure of the labourer is his lack 
of personal interest in the Jand. Surely a man trained to gardening, or, at 
least, to field labour, should be in a better position to make his garden yield him 
a good income than my Brighton friend! I admit that the question of the sale 
of the produce is a difficulty, but a provision compelling railways to carry such 
perishable merchandise to big centres at cheap rates is not an impossibility. At 
the very least, the land produce would reduce the labourer’s cost of living 
materially, and the work of cultivation would tend to imbue him with a deeper 
interest in the soil he cultivates.” 
REPORT ON WORK, QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, 
AUGUST, 1901, 
Farm.—Oats (6 acres) and wheat (4 acres) have been sown on land facing 
Tarampa road, formerly under maize. Weeds were cleared off 17 acres in 
creck paddock No. 2, the land ploughed and planted with malting barley. Five 
acres of old lucerne land in garden paddock have been ploughed up. A plot of 
land has been prepared for stud wheats ; these were sown during latter part of 
month. ‘Two varieties of wheat, Logan’s Rust Proof and Anderson’s Early 
Purple, were sown on land forming part of the garden area. Root crops, 
carrots, turnips, and mangolds were thinned and cultivated. Five and a-half 
acres of potatoes in creek paddock No. 1 were harvested, and the land prepared 
for oats. A small stack of cow pea was threshed. The land in bull paddock 
(14 acres), formerly under panicum, was ploughed, and is now under wheat. An 
area of land has also been ploughed and prepared for experimental crops. The 
Jand under barley (formerly panicum), 174 acres, has been rolled. 
A series of manurial experiments have been commenced. Eleven plots of 
16 perches each, separated by a space of 6 feet, were treated—nine plots with 
4 cwt. each of unslaked lime, which was placed on the land after the first 
peuenns and allowed to remain for twelve days, when it was ploughed in; the 
nd was then well rolled, harrowed, again ploughed, and the undermentioned 
manures applied :— 
Super- Potash Ammonia Australian 
Plot. phosphate. Sulphate. Sulphate. Potash, Kainit. 
Lb. Lb. D. Lb. Lb. 
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3 40 cb 8 5 
6 is) 4 tea 
C 36 16 10 00 
8 18 8 10 4 
HM) coe nog Ss oon 5 16 ne 
WO} 2.4 yee. - nee ae oy 36 
Ih ne -.. Barnyard manure, 7 tons. No lime used. 
LLNS yee, ... No manure. No lime used. 
