Queensland Agricultural Journal

Volume 1 Part 1 July 1897

Photo - Exhibit of the Agricultural Department, International Exhibition, Bowen Park 1897
Photo - Exhibit of the Agricultural Department, International Exhibition, Bowen Park 1897 Botanical Section
Photo - Delegates to the Farmers’ Conference at Gatton 10th June 1897

The Queensland Agricultural Journal will be sent free of cost to all agricultural societies, schools of art, local libraries, and country newspapers in the colony, and to agricultural newspapers and institutions of importance
in other portions of the world. Secretaries of agricultural, horticultural, pastoral, and kindred societies in Queensland are invited to furnish the Department of Agriculture with information as to their respective membership in order that the necessary number of copies of the Journal may be supplied.

5 To our Readers
6 Some Things we Need.
10 Organisation amongst Farmers.
12 A Paying crop for the West: a chat with Western farmers / Henry A. Tardent
17 Coffee-growing at Cairns.
19 The Dairying Industry in Queensland / John Mahon
25 Fruit Culture in Queensland / Albert H. Benson
30 Entomology: Destructive insects liable of introduction to Queensland / Henry Tryon
41 Apiculture: Bee-keeping for extracted honey / H. Stephens
46 A Tropical Industry: India-Rubber. (Caoutchouc) / E. Cowley
77 Probable meat trade with Egypt.
83 General Notes:
• Rubber in Upper Burma
• The Butter Industry of Canada
• Prickly pears for stock
• Farming by the wealthy classes
• The Maryborough Show
• The Lockyer Show
• Agricultural and Horticultural Shows
• Show Fixtures
87
• Farm and Garden Notes for July
• Public Announcements
87 The Queensland Agricultural College. Open for the reception of students, 1st July, 1897.