436 : QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Ocr., 1901. 
COTTON IN EUROPE. 
_ Cotton is to be grown in the southern part of Hungary, where the climate 
is said to be favourable to its cultivation. Bounties will probably be paid to 
cotton-planters. 
NEW USE FOR EUCALYPTUS LEAVES. 
In India the leaves of the eucalyptus are used by the railway authorities 
for making a decoction employed for cleansing the boiler of locomotives. The 
Government Botanical Gardens at Saharanpur (Allahabad) derive an annual 
income from the sale of the leaves for this purpose. The price is 3s. per maum 
(25 Ib.). 
NOXIOUS WEEDS IN NATAL. 
With a view to the eradication of noxious weeds in the rural districts of 
Natal, the Department of Agriculture in that colony has commissioned the 
Curator of the Botanic Gardens at Durban to have a certain number of drawings 
of noxious plants and descriptions thereof printed for the purpose of distributing 
them amongst magistrates and road overseers. It is hoped that this action may 
lead to a better knowledge of the noxious weeds of the colony—more especially 
of the “burr” class—and, as a result, to their extermination. 
HONEY IN NEW ZEALAND. 
New Zealand honey has been bringing £42 10s. per ton in the London 
market. There can have been no ti-tree flavour about that honey. The 
Poverty Bay settler who realised this price, gets 90 1b. of honey per hive 
annually. ; 
BUNDABERG AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Whilst there are three societies in Bundaberg representing the interests of 
canegrowers, horticulturists, farmers, and the industrial classes, the Isis 
Agricultural Association with two branches at Childers, also one society at 
Gooburrum, one at Kolan, and one at North Isis, Bundaberg has for some time 
had no society such as has just been formed under the patronage of the Hon. 
the Secretary for Lands, Mr. W. 8. O’Connell, M.L.A. A very successful 
meeting on the 24th August last resulted in the formation of a very strong 
committee, and the rules of the Se poeue society were adopted zn globo, 
subject to any necessary alteration the committee might make. Mr. T. W, 
Walker announced that he had received 110 promises to join, and of these 
fifty-four were farmers. The secretary was not appointed at the meeting, and, 
up to the time of publication of this issue, we have not been notified of any 
appointment having been as yet made. 
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, 
