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,UJ'1 ‘v*•lt;«*» crcrj lour or nve year?.If I remember rightly your worthy “Old Tom,” the Town Clerk of Brisbane, once wrote that these drought# and flood# were quite periodical—every fire year# a great drought followed by a tremendous flood, and he gave instance# of 1853-4, 1853-9, 1863 4, being alike a# the very finest for agricultural operation# ; whilst 1851, 1859, and 18G4 bad floods. Now, ii this theory is correct, and nobody just now can deny it, why canuot immediate provision be made for the same. I recommend this to the meteorologist of the East Morcton Farmer#’ Association, whoever he may be, to give our farmers a few pract ical hints thereupon. Let us see into the theory, and if it is believed in, let the society hoist one of Fitxroy’s beacon#, that farmers would avoid loss next cotton picking season if they had such lands in sugar : Floods next February, March, and April— plant sugar,*' would not be a bad Zadkiel’s prophecy.
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Brisbane Queenslander
Brisbane, Queensland, AU
Sat, Oct 26, 1867
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