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The World's Commercial Products 



A PRIMITIVE WINE-PRESS 



viticulture in those parts of the British Empire where experiment has shown that it can be 

 successfully carried on. At the outset it will be well to state that the extent of the Colonial 

 wine industry is at present almost negligible when compared with that of Europe and California, 

 but-1 especially in the .case of the Australian states, the industry may be regarded as being 

 as yet^in'its infancy, and it will, be of interest to consider the degree of success which has 

 attended the efforts -of our brothers across the seas to enter a field of industry which at 

 one time was regarded, with good reason, as being peculiarly European. 



The wine-producing colonies are Cape Colony and the Federated States of Australia. 

 The output in gallons of these countries for 1904 will be seen from the following table, but 

 although ,the actual amount of wine produced is by no means inconsiderable, it is but a drop 

 in the ocean, being not more than 0'3 per cent, of the world's total production. 



'Production of Wine in the British Empire, 1904 





Cape Colony . . 



South Australia 



Victoria 



New South Wales 



Western Australia 



Queensland 



5,686,672 gallons 



2,625,430 



1,832,386 



928,160 



187,490 

 60,433 



Total 



11,320,571 



The Cape of Good Hope was the first colony to commence systematic viticulture, and the 

 industry was firmly established by the Dutch long before the country came under the British 



