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  2. Station, Farm, & Garden.

    THIS is a special department of the QUEENSLANDER, and contributions are invited from all quarters upon stock and station affairs, the management of cattle, general farming, and gardening pursuits. A large ...

    Article : 2,664 words
  3. CULTURE OF WHEAT.

    IT is worthy of consideration by those who will be sowing wheat in a short time that good sound grain cannot be expected from diseased seed. No doubt good crops have been grown ...

    Article : 603 words
  4. Field and Station Correspondence.

    SIR,—Seeing in your issue of the 19th November an enquiry as to the best plan to destroy the red scale on lemon trees, I now forward you a recipe which I have tried on some lime trees. ...

    Article : 148 words
  5. SEEDS OF THE POINCIANA REGIA.

    SIR,—Will you (or any of your readers) kindly tell me how long the seeds of the Poinciana Regia remain in the ground before they vegetate?-Yours, ...

    Article : 36 words
  6. WINE CASKS.

    SIR,—Would you please inform me what kind of wood the wine casks are made of in Brisbane? I have been informed that the wine makers below the Range use casks made of colonial ...

    Article : 106 words
  7. IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE.

    THREE consecutive years of drought, while they have stimulated the inventive resources of practical agriculturists, have had the natural effect of calling forth a plentiful crop of ...

    Article : 2,857 words
  8. RACKS FOR CATTLE FEED.

    SIR,—With, I am certain, very many of your other readers, I would be greatly indebted to the QUEENSLANDER if we could get, through it, a description of racks for feeding cattle. I mean ...

    Article : 143 words
  9. INFLUENCE OF LIGHT ON ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE.

    IN attempting to expound the influence of light as a sanitary agent, we enter upon a subject which, in so far as we know, is entirely new, and upon which little information is to ...

    Article : 1,306 words
  10. WHITE CLOVER FOR PASTURE AND ORCHARDS.

    SIR,—Would it injure orchard trees to sow white clover under them with the object of keeping down the weeds? Does white clover make a good pasture in this country? Which ...

    Article : 154 words
  11. DRYING FRUIT FOR EXPORT.

    THERE is money to be made by the company or individual that goes energetically into drying fruit for export. In peaches alone the supply is practically unlimited. They could be ...

    Article : 1,404 words
  12. SETTLERS AND RAILWAY EXTENSION.

    SIR,—To the farmers along the line it is a question of life and death that the railway be now continued to the metropolis. Ipswich affords no market for their produce, and the competition ...

    Article : 865 words
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