186 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Sep, 1902. 
females. We disposed of 2 Ayrshire and 2 Shorthorn bulls. Sixty-nine head 
of crossbred cattle were trucked to Woombye on agistment. 
Piggery.—The increase of pigs for the month was as follows :—Berkshires, 
9 boars, 9 sows; Middle Yorks, 8 boars, 6 sows ; Tamworths, 4 boars, 5 sows; 
crossbreds, 4 boars, 3 sows. The sales during the month comprised—Berk- 
shires, 7 boars, 5 sows; Middle Yorks, 3 boars, 2 sows. These were sold for 
stud purposes. Eight mixed pigs were killed for curing. 
Poultry—The students have of late taken a good deal of interest in this 
department, the expert in charge having devoted much time to imparting know- 
ledge relating to the various breeds and the method of breeding and feeding for 
market purposes. We have a very nice lot of young birds coming on; for 
these a good demand exists. Records are now being kept of the laying qualities 
of the different breeds. 
THE DUPLEX WOVEN-WIRE FENCE. 
Amongst other machinery shown in action at the Exhibition at Bowen 
Park was a woven-wire fencemaking machine. 
We occasionally are asked how many wires will make a pig-proof or 
“general stock-proof fence. Judging by the way in which we have seen pigs 
struggle through a close barbed-wire fence, and by the way the cattle along the 
railway lines not only get their heads but occasionally their whole bodies 
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through the solidly built close-wired fences along the lines, we are inclined to 
think that wire fences, as usually constructed, are not proof against either pigs 
or small cattle, whilst the barbed wire is a source of great injury to larger an 
more valuable stock. 
Mr. J. M. Mitchell has now introduced machinery for wire fence manu- 
facture which cannot fail to commend itself to farmers and graziers as well as 
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