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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 178, 6 July 1871, Page 6

As a proof of the benefit of deep ploughing, a gentleman in going over a plantation lately in Queensland, where the canes of two growers came close to each other witaout fence or other stoppage more than the headlands necess.iry for turning a team of horses, was struck with the great difference between the capes upon each side of the line, and asked the reason. It was not owing to difference in soil j but in- the depth of the ploughing. When brought d)ose)y into contrast, the differenc between- ploughing: eight, inches deep and four inches- deep is very striking. Manure is very welh iv its way — would that we hod raors of it — but it is beyond doubt possible-to do a great deal by downright cbeep, clean cultivation.

To those who desire to grow trees on, their estates, but are deterred by the cost of the enclosing fences to protect them from the inroads' of cattle, ' the red-gum tree of Western Australia \s recommended by the correspondent of a Melbourne contemporary, who states that during a residence of thirty years at Swan Rivev he had never : known either cattle or horses to eat the leaves of the red gum. The tree, it is stated, grows in every description of spji ' and in every latitude in Western Australia, and is one of the quickest growing of indigenous trees.

Many farmers never keep accounts, and of course are nearly always in debt, and have enormous store bills to surprise them. They doubt the honesty of the storekeepers, and berate their wives and families for extravagance. Receipts and expenditure are .never noted; the profits- and losses in any branch of farming are unknown. Unconsciously debts multiply, • for it requires much less time and ability to dispose of money than to acquire it. Accounts properly kept would admonish, them when to spend and where to stop. Carelessness in one particular is apt to foster and beget carelessness in others.