540 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Dec., 1901. 
exhibitors that nothing but abnormal growths are worth showing. At the late 
show beetroots and turnips were on show with hollows inside large enough to 
contain a rat’s nest, and coarse enough for classification as samples of cabinet- 
making timber, while the same exhibitor had timidly hidden far better though 
smaller samples amongst his collection of vegetables. Several of the exhibitors 
deserve commendation for carefully naming each variety exhibited. This 
should be encouraged; but care must be taken to give the correct name, as 
great loss and disappointment will result to any person ordering seeds or 
especially fruit trees by name unless properly verified. 
So long as plenty of space is available, tradesmen and others who desire 
to make a display of their goods ought to be encouraged to do so, and the 
association might with advantage offer a prize for the best-arranged display, 
discriminating as far as possible in favour of commodities likely to be required 
by producers—such as fertilisers, seeds, tools, &c. In the same way permission 
ought to be granted to implement-makers and others who wish to have a stand ° 
on the show-ground. Owners of gambling-tables and gentlemen selling brass 
watches and purses containing new tfarthings ought to be refused admission to 
the ground. Shooting galleries, Aunt Sally, and other amusements might be 
admitted, if space is available, but they ought to be made to pay in advance for 
the privilege. 
REPORT ON WORK, QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, 
- OCTOBER, 1901. 
Farm.—The following work was performed on the farm during October :— 
An area of 37 acres, from which a crop of maize has lately been removed, 
has been ploughed. A plot of land on the hill, near the Principal’s house, has 
been ploughed, and planted with sweet potatoes—five varieties. A large 
quantity of lucerne has been cut, made into hay, and carted to shed. An area 
of upwards of 40 acres in the farm paddock has been subdivided into 5-acre 
blocks, the corners of which have been marked by substantial hardwood posts. 
This will facilitate a record being kept of all crops planted thereon. It is 
proposed to adopt similar measures in the case of all our larger cultivation 
paddocks as soon as the crops are removed. Five acres of wheat in creek 
paddock have been reaped and stooked; this work was hindered by rain, re-stooking 
being necessary. Six and a-half acres, from which a crop of potatoes has lately 
been removed, have been planted with maize of the following varieties :— 
White Ninety-day, Horse Tooth, Hawkesbury Champion, and Golden King, 
An area of 84 acres has been ploughed, and planted with Paspalum dilatatum 
ss. There is now an area of upwards of 17 acres under this grass. One 
renieed and twenty-five bags of maize have been threshed. _ We have now seed 
maize of the following varieties for disposal:—Golden Drop, Large Yellow, 
Ninety-day, Yellow Dent, and Golden King. 
Potatoes, mangolds, and other root crops have been hoed and scuffled. 
Sixteen acres of malting barley have been reaped and stooked. The experimental 
crops, with the exception of stud wheats, are doing well, especially the mangolds 
that were treated with various manures. The plot treated with the barnyard 
manure has made the greatest growth. All the wheats, with the exception of 
the Belatourka, are slightly affected with rust; this necessitates their being 
cut and converted into vege The rainfall for the month amounted to 
3:02 inches for eight days. The heaviest falls were on the 8th (1°01), 12th (50), 
14th (‘76). 
Garden.—In this department a large amount of weeding and watering 
have been done amongst the vegetables, and beds for a succession of crops have 
been planted. The cabbage moth and grubs have rendered necessary a great 
deal of spraying. ‘abbages have been sprayed with London purple, Paris 
een, and tar water; the latter has been found to be very effectual. Two horses 
ave been kept constantly going throughout the month harrowing, scuffling, 
