Appendix 11 



"seed wheat have been distributed on this plan, 

 "and further supplies are still being sent out. 

 " Partly as a result of the assistance given in this 

 "form the Department expected an increase of 

 " 80,000 acres in the area under wheat, and it now 

 " appears that this calculation may be justified. 

 " The area cultivated for the same purpose last year 

 "was only 132,655 acres, so that the percentage of 

 " improvement will be more marked than anything 

 " which has occurred in the past. Hitherto Queens- 

 " land has not ranked highly as a wheat-producing 

 " state, and has had to import a portion of her own 

 " supplies. This has not been due to any lack of 

 "natural resources. Experiments made by the 

 " Department at their own farms have demonstrated 

 " that, under a proper system of cultivating and 

 " manuring, the yields in this state rank as a matter 

 " of quantity second to none in Australia, while 

 " rust has been successfully combated by means of 

 " selective breeding, and but little trouble is caused 

 " from smut. The yields already obtained by 

 " farmers have proved sufficiently profitable to 

 "encourage an extension of the industry. But the 

 " results attained under modern methods at the 

 " State experimental farms successfuly demonstrate 

 "that the natural resources of the soil are as yet 

 "being exploited to but a small fraction of their 

 "possibilities. A striking illustration of the latter 

 " fact has been afforded from the Roma district. 



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