542 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Dec., 1901. 
Dairying. 
IRISH V. DANISH BUTTER. 
A novel competition is being entered into by Irish and Danish butter- 
makers. The Irish manufacturers have been doing their best to oust the Danes 
from their position, and so confident are they of success that the merchants 
have arranged to provide fifty kegs of butter to be sent from each country to 
be tested by English experts. ‘The butter will go to five different ports, in 
order to get as many representative opinions as possible. A standard of quality 
is to be fixed, and for every keg that fails to come up to that standard the 
country to which it belongs will forfeit £10 to the opposite party. 
SORGHUM FOR STOCK. 
Much has been written about the danger of allowing farm stock to graze 
on young sorghum, and it has been abundantly proved that the risk of sorghum- 
poisoning is great. But, according to a bulletin issued from the Experiment 
Station, Manhattan, Kansas, on ‘What shall we Feed?” it appears that 
sorghum, Kafir corn, cow pea, and alfalfa (lucerne) make safe pasture after 
cattle become accustomed to them, but great care must be used in starting 
stock on such pastures. At the college at Manhattan, the cattle are first filled 
with straw or hay in the morning. Then they are turned onto the sorghum or 
other green crops for only fifteen minutes the first day, the next day thirty 
minutes, and then the time is increased fifteen minutes each day till an hour 
and a-half is reached, when it is safe to let them stay on all the time and not 
give them any other feed. Cattle turned on such pastures at first, if hungry, 
will often eat afew mouthfuls and die in a few minutes or hours. : 
Here is a wrinkle for farmers in this State whose cattle have died from 
sorghum-poisoning. Possibly they may think it too much trouble to send them 
out for fifteen minutes and then turn them out, and to continue timing their 
feeding for several days; but surely it is better to do this than to let the 
animals die or make no use of a crop of good forage. 
THE ELAND FOR WESTERN DISTRICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES 
AND CENTRAL AUSTRALIA. 
We have received from Mr. O. McMaster, of Bonnie Downs. Station, 
North Queensland, a most comprehensive and highly interesting pamphlet under 
the above title by Mr. C. A. Benbow. The pamphlet is too long for our 
limited space, much as we should like to publish it. 
After describing the country between the Overflow and the Bogan River, 
the writer points out the hopelessness of successful cattle-raising on the scrub- 
covered country, and he asks how it is to be used when neither fire nor water will 
eradicate the dense scrub, and supplies the answer, which is: Put an animal on 
the scrub lands which will eat it, whose natural food it is, who will fatten on it, 
that requires not much water, and can travel for what it wants. Can such an 
animal be found ? he asks. Yes, the Eland, he’says. This antelope, when full- 
grown, is as large as a two-year-old shorthorn, and has far more the appearance 
of a high-bred bullock than an antelope. It can live on the hardest fare, and 
soon grows fat on good pasture. But, best of all, it becomes quite tame, and is 
easily acclimatised. Mr. Benbow quotes an instance from ‘“‘ Beeton’s Book of 
Household Management,” of Viscount Hill, at Hawkestone Park, Salop, having 
