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The Daily Mail
2 July 1926

SOUTH JOHNSTONE SUGAR

INNISFAIL, Thursday. – The fourth annual field day was held to-day at South Johnstone sugar experiment station. Mr. H. T. Easterby, Director of Sugar Experiment Stations, delivered an address, chiefly dealing with the application of fertilisers to cane culture and illustrating his remarks by showing the results of various experiments carried out at the station. Mr. Edmond Jarvis, Government Entomologist, attached to the Meringa entomological station, also delivered an address.

Queensland State Archives Item ID 392327, Photographic material

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The Northern Herald,
7 July 1926

Innisfail Cane.

Mr. H. T. Easterby. Director of Sugar Experiment Stations, who is visiting the Innisfail district, said that this season’s cane crop, whilst good in that district, was somewhat backward as compared with last year’s. it was. therefore, not expected that the mills would cut such large tonnages as on the previous occasion. At the same time the cane was, generally speaking, very healthy, and the growth, whilst not rapid, was sufficient to produce a high’ percentage of c.c.s. ‘One noticeable feature, this year.’ said Mr. Easterby, ‘is the large amount of arrowed cane north of Townsville, which, no doubt, is due to this dry weather which has been experienced. The rains which have recently fallen in the Innisfail district should have a good effect on the young plant cane, and should help along that cane which has not yet flowered.”

Queensland

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The Brisbane Courier
21 September 1932

VICTORIA POINT ABUNDANT CROPS

One of the most pleasing and productive areas of the South Coast, Victoria Point, in its luxuriance of crops of tropical fruits and vegetables, and its general air of prosperity, is a remarkable . contrast to many areas of the State.

It seems almost unbelievable that this now beautiful, well-improved and richly-productive area was in its early days of settlement a waste of uncleared forest country, its handful of pioneers gaining a precarious livelihood by grazing a few head of cattle, and carrying on a little mixed farming.

To-day Victoria Point is an area of well-tilled farms and comfortable homes, and a source of supply of fruits and vegetables to Brisbane and Southern markets. Farms stretch over a wide expanse of rich chocolate soil, maintaining all the year through an abundance of crops. Victoria Point has an almost inexhaustible supply

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The Brisbane Courier
30 August 1930

SUNNYBANK – FRUIT GROWING AND MARKET GARDENING

Sunnybank, situated about 10 miles from Brisbane, along the Southport railway line, possesses a variety of rich soils, and is notable for its production of tropical fruits – particularly pawpaws – and for market-gardening.

Although the district was settled many years ago, when Brisbane was in its infancy, little had been done up to 20 years ago in the way of extensive development. Since then, however, Sunnybank has become one of the best-developed and prolific agricultural areas around the metropolis. The Sunnybank of these days may be said to comprise two sections – residential, immediately along the railway line, and the other a strip of rich ridgy country back from the line. On this section are several families holding well-improved farms of from 5 to 15 acres in extent.

One of the earliest settlers was the late

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The Brisbane Courier
9 May 1928

A BIG GRANADILLA.

A giant granadilla was brought to the “Courier” office yesterday by Mr. E. A. Aldridge, who grew it at his home at Stanley-terrace, Taringa. It was 1ft. 11½in. long, and 1ft. 7½in round the sides. The granadilla is a tropical fruit, but Mr. Aldridge says he has no difficulty in growing them in Brisbane, even at this time of the year. He has four vines all of which are good bearers, and a visitor from Cooktown, the home of the granadilla, informed him that they bore the best fruit he had ever seen.

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The Palmwoods-Buderim Tramway was a private industrial tramway on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

The length of the line was seven miles, fifteen chains (11.5km), which ran from the Queensland Government Railways station at Palmwoods, across undulating country to Forest Glen on the Bruce Highway, and then climbed to the top of Buderim ‘Mountain’.

Maroochy Shire Council established a committee in 1903 to consider the possibility of a tramway to Buderim. An Order in Council for the construction of the line was granted in 1911 and it opened for business of 1 December 1914. Despite initial success, the First World War halted planned expansion and the tramway began to lose money in the 1920s due to lower farm output. The Great Depression finally sealed its fate.

The final run was on 10 August 1935 and it was dismantled soon after. The earthworks are still visible and were listed on the

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From the Queensland Heritage Register

Buderim House was built c1915 for Herbert Victor Fielding, son of pioneer Buderim sugar planter, mill owner and fruit grower John Fielding, who in 1876 selected nearly 49 hectares on the northern slopes of Buderim Mountain.

In the 1880s competition from imported sugar forced Buderim sugar planters into crop diversification, and by the late 1880s, Herbert Fielding was growing bananas on a large scale on the family property. Following John Fielding’s death in 1890, the farm, by then reduced to about 40 hectares, passed to his wife Jane. When Herbert Fielding acquired the property in 1906, it extended from Orme Road to Mill Road and across the present Gloucester Road to the creek. He was a successful farmer, and in the early 1900s attended state-wide agricultural conferences as the representative of the Maroochy Pastoral Agricultural Horticultural and Industrial Association.

He is believed to

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The Brisbane Courier
22 February 1927

BALLANDEAN

The Grape Crop – Much relief is felt at the lifting of the restrictive regulations concerning the sale of grapes in Brisbane. The low prices and lack of demand consequent on the prosecution of grape vendors in Brisbane for not conforming to the regulation caused consternation amongst growers, many of whom ceased marketing their crop until better prices obtained. Practically no grapes have gone forward to Brisbane for some days.

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The Queenslander
8 August 1885

The Treatment of Cream

THE milk for butter-making should be poured into enamelled pans, which are easily kept clean; it should be placed in a cool well-ventilated dairy, and in an atmosphere which is quite fresh and sweet; and it should be shaded from draught and strong rays of light, and should not go sour while the cream is rising. Where a separator is used these precautions are unnecessary. But the cream in any case should remain free from acidity, or nearly so, until it is churned, yet should be ripe. Perfectly fresh cream makes perfectly sweet butter, of course, but such butter is insipid when compared with butter made from well-ripened cream. The ripening of milk in cheese-making and the ripening of cream in butter-making provide an analogy which is worth while to remember. Soured cream or milk will produce butter whose

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