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guarantee the weight of the wheat put on trucks at various railway 
stations. The weights at the farmer’s end and those at the other end of the 
railway nearly always disagreed, generally to the disadvantage of the farmer. 
Mr. D. Wurrety (Rockhampton) said there was a weighbridge on the 
Emu Park line which always went 18 cwt. to the ton. 
Mr. L. G. Corrre spoke on Mr. Peek’s paper to the same effect as did Mr. 
Reid. He advocated single judging. Mr. Peek advocated getting special help 
from the Government, but the Chamber of Agriculture did not want Govern- 
ment help, in fact, it wanted to stand clear from the Government. It wanted 
to make the Government do things that the Chamber might consider to the 
interests of the farmers. 
Mr. Prex (Loganholme) explained his system of working in the interests 
‘of the agriculturists of Queensland and his work in connection with the 
National Association. He deplored the ignorance displayed by Southern 
legislators sent from here who do not know either our requirements or our 
resources. 
Mr. McLean (Agricultural Department) informed Mr. Peek that Victoria 
had already taken up the question of interstate exhibits at the annual show of 
the Royal Agricultural Society in Melbourne. 
The session was concluded by a very able and thoughtful address by Mr. 
J.C. Nutzsey, of Laidley, on country agricultural societies, the chief points 
touched on by the speaker being their organisation and operations, their 
attitude towards each other and to the central or town societies—i.e., 
agricultural societies having their headquarters at Townsville, Rockhampton, 
Toowoomba, Ipswich, and Brisbane—the possible affiliation, in groups, around 
the above centres, the development and management of district society 
competitions and interstate collections, &c. Mr. Neilsen’s remarks necessarily 
traversed much of the ground contained in the papers of Messrs..Corrie and 
Peek, but we regret that the inexorable exigencies of space preclude us from 
quoting them at length. 
SEVENTH SESSION. 
THURSDAY, 12rnH June, 1902. 9°30 a.m. 
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND IMPLEMENTS. 
[By Mr. W. D. Lams, Yangan.] 
In selecting this subject for my papers at this Conference, I feel that T am 
touching on a matter that has been too much overlooked in the past. One has only to 
take a drive over the agricultural districts on the Downs especially, and, if he knows 
anything about machinery, he will see sights that must make the heart of the machine 
agent rejoice. It is no uncommon sight to see valuable machinery of almost every 
description lying about the paddocks just where they finished the last harvest, and 
there they will lie until the next harvest. I maintain that in no other country do 
machinery and implements cost the farmer more money and are so little cared for. 
Three-fourths of the machinery that our farmers buy are never worn out. They are 
simply neglected and allowed to rust out. Itisavery easy matter for any farmer to erect 
a shed to shelter his machinery and implements when not in use. A few posts and a few 
sheets of iron or roofing felt, and a few hours’ work, and the thing is done. If the careless 
farmer would make a practice of putting all lis machinery, &c., under cover directly 
he finishes the work that he has on hand, in a few months’ time, I venture to say, that 
he would be surprised when he took it out to work the next time. And whata saving 
of time and temper there would be in haying his machines and implements in one 
pane where he could Jay his hands on any article when it was wanted, instead of 
aving to hunt all over the farm for it! What a humiliating sight it is-to see a farmer 
in this progressive age wrestling with a neglected binder or mower, with a bottle of 
kerosene in one hand and a screw-wrench in the other, trying to get his machine to 
move! Of course that man is well-known to the machine agent, who is very shortly 
on the job, and the result is, a lot of new duplicate parts or a new machine, for which 
the farmer will have to pay. If our farmers would only pay a little more attention to 
all the little details and small leakages on their farms, what a saving there would be 
