Queensland Agricultural Journal

Event and Comment. Page 239
• Queensland Wheat
• Our Cotton Future

The Queensland Sugar Industry. H.T. Easterby, Director, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations. Page 242
• Part IV. Review of the Industry Since Federation

Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations
• Entomologist’s Advice to Canegrowers. Edmund Jarvis
• Cane Pests and Diseases
• Notes on Mole-Crickets Damaging Cane
• Cane Pest Combat and Control
• Continual Wet Weather Delays Cane Grub Fumigation
• Collecting Grubs and Beetles – A Common-sense Remedial Method

Life History Notes on the Banana Fruit-Eating Caterpillar (Tiracola plagiata Walk.). Margaret E. Temperley, B.Sc. Includes photos. Page 251
• General Description
• Life History
• Larval Period
• Technical Descriptions

Climatological Table – February, 1930

Rainfall in the Agricultural Districts. Table showing the average rainfall for the month of February in the agricultural districts, together with total rainfall during February 1930 and 1929, for comparison

Growing Fodder for Winter Use in Central Queensland. G.B. Brooks, Senior Instructor in Agriculture. Page 263
• Not a Matter of Luck
• Providing Feed for an Extended Period
• Varieties to Sow
• Field Peas a Useful Addition
• Time to Plant
• Crops Suitable for Pig Raising Purposes

Rural Life in Other Lands – XI. Page 265
• Byways in Belgium

Fur-Bearing Rabbits

Denmark’s Dairying Industry. Page 268
• Herd Testing
• Factories
• Starters
• Grading Station
• Government Experimental Dairy Farm
• Agricultural Education
• Agricultural Co-operation in Denmark

Butter Making for Home Consumption. Page 272

Contagious Pneumonia in Pigs
• Common Predisposing Causes

Ballanitis in Sheep. Page 275

Diseases in Plants Act. Page 276
• New Regulations Proclaimed

Queensland Show Dates, 1930

The World’s Cotton Situation

Answers to Correspondents. Page 278

Botany
• Gympie District Plants Identified
• Rattle-pods Glycine tabacina
• Poisonous Weeds
• Bull-head Grass
• Giant Couch
• Rhynchosia minima
• Australian Eryngo
• White Oak, or “Wheel of Fire”
• Chinese Goosberry. Arjun Tree
• Plants from Pittsworth Identified
• Cockspur Thistle
• A Widely Distributed Grass (Chrysopogon Gryllius)
• Rattle-pod (Crotalgria incana)
• Wild Cherry (Vitex acuminata)

Pig Raising
• Points in Pig Management

Dairying
• Points in Dairy Cattle Breeding

General Notes. Page 282
• The Dairy Produce Act – Its Application Extended
• Staff Changes and Appointments
• Sugar Industry – An Amended Regulation
• The Banana Industry Protection Act
• Canada Adopts Meat Grading
• Honey Board Nominations
• New Zealand Pig Products – Satisfactory Experiments
• They all Advertise
• Pig Returns- Can any other Reader beat this
• Improvement of Dairy Herds in U.S.A.
• The Poisonous Plants of Queensland
• Canada’s Increasing Trade
• Citrus Levy Extended
• Dairying Problems
• The Gospel of Good Farming
• Increase Meat Sales – Attractive Joints
• U.S.A. Commercial and Intelligence Service
• Why Silage Keeps
• Defrosting of Beef
• Disinfectants in the Dairy – Limitations

The Home and the Garden. Page 289

Farm Notes for May. Page 294

Orchard Notes for May
• The Coastal Districts
• The Granite Belt, Southern and Central Tablelands

Astronomical Data for Queensland