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  2. Field and Garden Correspondence.

    Either on the authority of gentlemen to whom we are privileged to refer, on personal knowledge, or by reference to authorities, we do our best to answer correspondents who write to the QUEENSLANDER for ...

    Article : 91 words
  3. A WARWICK MAN'S OPINIONS.

    SIR: I read with great interest the report of the East Moreton Farmers' Association, and, as a Warwickite, I could scarcely believe it to be a farmers meeting at all. There is, first, the great ...

    Article : 931 words
  4. ONE OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE LAND ACT OF 1868.

    SIR: Amongst the purchasers taking up land under the pre-emptive right, I see in one of the late Government Gazettes Mr. Donald Ross as having taken up 2560 acres of first-class ...

    Article : 347 words
  5. JUTE AND HEMP.

    SIR: Every now and again I observe notices in the newspapers about samples of jute, hemp, &c., arriving at your office from parties who grow the same. Now I think that if hemp and ...

    Article : 457 words
  6. AN ATTEMPT TO GROW SILK IN ENGLAND, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.

    VERY much has been written on the possibility of cultivating silk in England, and it is an article of popular belief that it might be done and leave a fair margin of profit (perhaps more) ...

    Article : 4,472 words
  7. THE NEW LAND ACT.

    SIR: This Act is generally supposed to confer a great boon on all classes of the community. There is, however, something radically wrong or defective in the working out of its provisions. ...

    Article : 457 words
  8. POISONING WILD DOGS.

    SIR: In your issue of May 30 there appeared an article by "Myall," entitled "Native Dogs and how to Poison them," in which he says, "Most squatters are aware of the fact that an ...

    Article : 220 words
  9. PRIVATE STILLS.

    SIR: Will you kindly inform me, through your columns, whether it is legal for a farmer to have a still upon his land, for the purpose of manufacturing whisky from maize for his own ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. FARM LIFE IN AUSTRALIA.

    FOR various reasons I am induced to give this subject more prominence than I would otherwise do, the principal one being the enormous sums of money which we pay annually ...

    Article : 1,071 words
  11. SOLDIERING HORSES.

    SIR: After seeing many articles and paragraphs anent the above business, I will now endeavor to propose a plan which I feel sure, if once followed up, will act most beneficially to ...

    Article : 819 words
  12. THE PROPER VINES TO CULTIVATE.

    SIR: Having become the possessor of several acres of land which is believed to be suitable for growing vines, I would feel much obligated by your publishing a list of the proper vines to ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. SUGAR CULTIVATION.

    SIR: As one of the diners at the recent "spread," given by the East Moreton Agricultural Society, and, I may add, one of the listeners to the post-prandial eloquence which ...

    Article : 648 words
  14. ON THE EXTERMINATION OF THE NATIVE DOG.

    HAVING, in my former article, attempted to arrive at an approximate of the annual cost of the "Warrigal dingo" to the colony, it now remains to consider the best means to be devised ...

    Article : 1,281 words
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