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Queensland Agricultural Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2, 116 pages, August 1930. State of Queensland.

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Event and Comment. Page 119
• The Current Issue
• The Governor's Speech
• Forestry Problems
• Water Supply
• The Sugar Industry
• An Excellent Season-Crop Extension
• The Passing of Mr. Pritchard
• The Dairy Industry - the Need of Scientific Research

The Queensland Sugar Industry. H. T. Easterby, Director, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations Part VIII. Includes photographs. Page 122
• Review of the Industry Since Federation.

Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations. Includes photographs
• Field Days
• Cane Pests and Diseases. The Director of Sugar Experimental Stations, Mr. H.T. Easterby has received the ,following Report (24th July, 1930) from Mr. J.H. Buzacott, assistant entomologist
• Notes on the Giant Termite
• Cane Pest Combat and Control
• A New and Effective Spray for Mealy Bugs
• An Erroneous Impression Contradicted
• Negative Results with White Arsenic against Cane Grubs
• Biological Control Work
• Visit to the Lower Burdekin District
• Insect Friends of the Canegrower. Entomologist's Advice for August. Edmund Jarvis
• Hints to Field Assistants
• Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations

The Brown Cutworm (Euxoa radians Guen.). G.A. Currie, B.Sc Part II. Includes graphs and tables. Page 138
• Temperature Reactions
• Co-Ordination of Field and Laboratory Work
• Laboratory Technique
• Results of Temperature Work
• Description of Life Cycle Stages. Includes drawings

Cotton Growing in Queensland. Work at the Callide Experiment Station. Includes graphs and tables. Page 164
• Summary
• Seasonal Conditions
• Cotton
• Fodder Trials
• Maize
• Summer Fodder Crops
• Lucerne
• Rhodes Grass
• Rotation Series
• Cotton Experiments
• Time of Planting Experiment
• Hill Versus Drill Planting Experiment
• Height of Thinning Experiment
• Insect Problems

Fruit Fly in Java - a Correction

Queensland Show Dates

New Zealand Farmers in Queensland. Page 180
• Visit to the Netherby Stud
• At Toowoomba
• Toowoomba Butter Factory
• At Gatton
• At Swift's Meatworks
• At Bundaberg

Nervous Cows at Milking Time

Queensland Butter. Chas. McGrath, Supervisor of Dairying. Page 185
• Food Value of Milk and its Products
• Oversea Market Requirements
• Cream Transport
• Interstate Boundaries
• Quality of Butter
• Pasteurisation
• Surface Taint in Butter
• Moisture Content in Butter
• Deodorisation of Cream
• Improvement of Factory Buildings and Equipment
• The Future

Pineapple Culture. Includes photographs. Page 189
• Notes on Manurial Experiments

Winter School for Pig Farmers. E.J.Shelton, Senior Instructor in Pig Raising. Includes photograph. Page 192
• Imported Pedigree Sows
• In Favour of the Large White Pig

Climatological Table - June; 1930 Supplied by the Commonwealth of Australia Meteorological Bureau, Brisbane. Page 195

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

Contagious Abortion. Page 196
• How Infection is Spread
• The Blood Teat
• Seriousness of the Disease
• Introduction of the Stud Bull
• Immunity and Relative Immunity
• Sporadic Abortion
• Troubles after Calving
• Septic Pneumonia among Cows

The Care of the Car. Page 199
• The Magneto and the Spark
• The "Hot Tube."
• Low-Tension Ignition

The Farm Tractor
• The Importance of Decarbonising
• Spark Plugs
• Valves

The Royal Society of Queensland
• May Meeting
• June Meeting

Abstracts and Reviews
• Fungous Diseases of Plants
• Elementary Practical Agricultural Chemistry
• Live Stock of the Farm. (6 Vols.)

The Young Farmer. Page 206
• Notes on Calf Feeding. Contributed by C.F. McGrath, Supervisor of Dairying

Answers to Correspondents. Page 208
• "Thorn Apple"
• Mission, Sour, or Yellow Grass
• Wood-Sorrel
• Grass (Neurachne) Identified
• Black Mauritius Bean
• Alton Downs Blue Grass (Andropogon nodosus)
• Needle Burr
• Grasses - Chloris barabata, a Native Panicum. Crotalaria striata
• Stagger Weed. Mallow
• Polypore (Fungus)
• Poison Peach. Cassia
• Grasses, North Queensland Coastal Country
• Bird's-Foot Trefoil
• Measurement of Log Timber

General Notes.
• Staff Changes and Appointments
• The Brisbane Show
• Sanctuary for Animals and Birds - Brisbane Catchment Area
• Tomato Packing - a Handy Wall Chart
• Sectional Group Committee Elections
• Sanctuaries for Animals and Birds
• Subsidy to Agricultural Societies
• Baby Beef
• State Wheat Pool Election Regulations
• Finance for Barley Board
• The Queensland Canary Seed Board - the Season's Returns
• A New Sanctuary for Native Birds
• No Open Season for Opossums
• Regulations Under the Farm Produce Agent Acts
• Papaw Levy Regulations
• Swine Fever
• Mildew on Bacon

The Home and the Garden. Page 215
• Our Babies. Diphtheria
• The Woman on the Land. F.O. Bosworth, Queensland Agricultural High School and College
• Domestic Amenities
• Comfort in the Kitchen
• Household Pests
• The Bathroom and the Laundry
• The Occurrence of Cancer. How Its Incidence Can Be Reduced
• Topical Notes
• Manure for Cabbages
• Kitchen Garden
• Five Reasons in Favour of the Home Vegetable Garden

Farm Notes for September
• The Farm Garden

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

Astronomical Data for Queensland Times Computed by D. Eglinton, F.R.A.S and A.C. Eglinton

Item Type:Journal
Volume:34
Number:2
Number of Pages:116
Date:August 1930
Publisher:State of Queensland
Corporate Creators:Queensland. Department of Agriculture and Stock
Subjects:Agriculture > Agriculture (General)
Agriculture > Agriculture (General) > Documents and other collections
Agriculture > Agriculture (General) > History
Agriculture > Agriculture (General) > Agricultural education
Agriculture > By region or country > Australia > Queensland > Periodicals
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