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  2. Station, Farm, & Garden.

    IN conjuction with a numerous list of regular contributors to the Station, Farm, and Garden columns of the QUEENSLANDER, we invite the co-operation or all interested in the productive pursuits of the ...

    Article : 1,084 words
  3. The Honey Bee.

    BEE-GLASSES.—"W. S. M." asks: "What are your bee glasses like? And how are they worked ? Can they be worked on any kind of bee-box ?" Yea; they can be used on anything ...

    Article : 553 words
  4. STOCK, STATION, AND PRODUCE REPORTS.

    EYRE and DIGBY report the fat cattle market fairly supplied for the season. Since our last report we hare sold about 500 head by auction. One lot of 100 head from Widgee Widgee, ...

    Article : 3,054 words
  5. FAMILIAR LETTERS ON AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.

    IN letter I. it was mentioned that to understand the part manures play it is needful to make analyses of the plants themselves, and from such learn their constitution. The ...

    Article : 1,694 words
  6. THE CASTOR OIL PLANT.

    MANY thanks for your article of last week upon the castor oil bean, which contains much valuable information; but as there appears some misapprehension as to the quantity ...

    Article : 233 words
  7. Correspondents' Conference.

    SIR,—" Rockingham," who writes in The Queenslander of August 30 about the preserving of virus for inoculating purposes, will find full information in Mr Bruce's valuable ...

    Article : 83 words
  8. THE COCOANUT PALM.

    COCONUT-PLANTING is becoming common in the northern sections of Queensland, and even on the islands in Moreton Bay the plant is found to grow rapidly and strong. It likes a ...

    Article : 960 words
  9. TO DESTROY WHITE ANTS.

    WHERE they appear about stores, houses, &c., put a few handfuls of Liverpool salt on their nests, and they will disappear at once; salt is poison to them. I have cleared them off my ...

    Article : 44 words
  10. A GOOD NATIVE GRASS.

    SIR,—I have the honor to request that you will be kind enough to endeavor to inform me of the name of the plant to which the enclosed seeds belong. The grass was first noticed last ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. THE INDIGO PLANT—WORMS IN HORSES.

    SIR,—Could you or any of your numerous, readers inform me if there is any remedy for horses or cattle that are suffering from the effects of eating the Indigo plant, or Darling ...

    Article : 186 words
  12. SUGAR IN THE MARY DISTRICT. III.

    FROM Mr. Brown's plantation, Antigua, two other factories are seen, and long stretches of cane grown by farmers, showing just a tinge of where the frost had been—always in low ...

    Article : 2,095 words
  13. CULTIVATION FOR SHEEP AND STOCK.

    SIR,—Will you be kind enough to answer the following:—1. If I take up 160 acres as pastoral under the Homestead Act, could I cultivate a few acres, if it was suitable? 2. ...

    Article : 180 words
  14. CYPRESS PINE RESIN.

    SIR,—Could you or some of your numerous readers answer the following questions :— 1. When it the proper time to tap the cypress pine for the gum ; and if there ...

    Article : 100 words
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