2701 |
Blaxland. E. J. and Co., Toowoomba.—Eight Tins Dried Meat, each 41bs., and eight months preserved; is cured entirely without salt, and will keep in any climate three years; is extremely portable, each pound of dry taking four pounds of raw flesh, and as one pound raw in using is equal to three-and-a-half pounds of fresh meat—and as it is sold, beef 6d and mutton 8d per pound—this gives a price, in proportion to fresh meat, of only 2d per pound for beef, and 2½d for mutton; is made from the best cattle Queensland can produce |
2702 |
Hill, Walter, Director of Botanical Gardens, Brisbane:—
Arrowroot from Canna Edulis—Purple arrowroot, market price, 7d. per lb.
Arrowroot from Marantha Arundinacea—White arrowroot, market price, 7d. per lb.
Samples Jam
Preserves made of Citron, Bitter Orange, Loqaat, Lime, and Two Samples of Sugar from Cane |
2703 |
Warner, Jas., Surveyor, Brisbane, prod.—Sample of Raw Coffee grown at Kangaroo, Port Brisbane, from young trees of four or five years growth, from seed produced at the same place. Sample from the parent tree gained a prize at the International Exhibition, 1862. |
2704 |
Hope, Hon. Louis, Cleveland, prod, and manu.:—
Two samples of sugar from the ribbon cane. The yield per acre of this cane was three tons, and the market price 5d per lb. |