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  2. Station, Farm, and Garden.

    THIS is a special department of the QUEENSLANDER, and contributions are invited from all quarters upon Stock [?]nd Station affairs, the Management of Cattle, general Farming and Gardening pursuits. A large number of ...

    Article : 43 words
  3. The Fruit Season.

    AT the close of the fruit season it would be both interesting and profitable for orchardists and cultivators in different districts to record their experience for the public benefit; and as ...

    Article : 1,486 words
  4. Stock, Station, and Produce Reports.

    S. and N. HOWES report:—Sugar has been neglected, and during the past fourteen days we have few sales to report, the values remaining unchanged. Hations, 23s. to 24s; brown, 25s. ...

    Article : 3,085 words
  5. Carlsburg Vintage of 1874.

    AS in formers years, so this year (1874) I wish to give you an account of our vintage at carlsburg, and say a few word on the production of the different vines and their health. ...

    Article : 1,097 words
  6. Nations that Aid Settlement.

    THE term "settler" in used in the largest sense, and in this case refers to all who settle on the land, without any reference whatever to the size of the holding, whether it is ten or ten ...

    Article : 715 words
  7. Semi-Tropical Agriculture.-VII.

    ALTHOUGH the tea plant—the shrub or bush which yields tea to the Chinese and Japanese- has been well known in Northern Australia for many years, it has never come into favor. It is ...

    Article : 1,030 words
  8. COCOA—CACAO—CHOCOLATE.

    COCOA, from which the chocolate of commerce is made, is obtained, in the form of seed-pods, from a handsome tree. In its nature, the tree is even more tropical than coffee, but it may be ...

    Article : 835 words
  9. The Honey Bee.

    STRAIGHT COMBS ("S. W.")—It should be remembered that I have always had my combs built between two others, and under such circumstances. the bees never build across the frances. ...

    Article : 155 words
  10. "Will Sugar-growing Pay in the Southern Districts?"

    I WAS sorry to see that Mr. Muir and "N.X.P." seem to have misunderstood the drift of my letter. The mistake seems to have arisen in this way—that whereas I apply the term ...

    Article : 574 words
  11. Correspondents' Conference.

    SIR,—I should feel much obliged if some of your numerous readers would give, me, through the medium of your columns, the description of any two-wire fence that may have come under ...

    Article : 95 words
  12. COFFEE.

    THIS plant has been more extensively grown in Australia than tea. It has proved delicate in exposed situations; but in rich soils, on the sides of hills protected from westerly gales, it is ...

    Article : 1,254 words
  13. THATCHING WITH BLADY GRASS.

    SIR,—In answer to "Boco," in last Queenslander, I have thatched with blady grass, or saw grass, as it is called. It answers for three on four seasons, if they are dry, but two seasons of ...

    Article : 376 words
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