180 EXPERIMENTS WITH INDIAN WHEATS IN QUEENSLAND. 



the climate is unsuitable for agricultural pursuits — as wheat 

 cannot be made to grow in these regions with any permanent 

 success," &c., &G. 



These quotatins indicate the views of the writer ; the British 

 immigrant brought hei-e must be able to do as he does in the 

 old countr}', must eat the same food, grow the same crops, or he 

 cannot be expected to be prosperous. From the slight glance at 

 what is mentioned in the account given of New South Wales, 

 I did not see that Mr. Trollope found anything better in wheat- 

 growing there, and on a recent trip to what was formerly a 

 great wheat-growing centre, Camden, I found very little wheat 

 under cultivation, and a fine large mill lying idle. European 

 wheats were so destroyed by rust that their cultivation was 

 almost abandoned. 



In Warwick, in our own colony, the European w^heats were 

 at times successful, and gave good returns, but were often a 

 failure from rust, especially when the crop became, from moist 

 weather, a trifle too succulent. 



The Indian wheats so far as reported on when tried in our 

 own higher lands at Toowoomba, were uniformly successful as 

 seed-producers, but the millers thought the grain rather hard. 



The millers in London, whri purchase largely of Indian 

 w^heats, overcome this dilficnlty and make flour satisfactory to 

 British consumers. Still, many \'arieties of the Indian wheats 

 are not harder than European kinds. The hard ones resist the 

 attacks of weevils and moths in u great measure, and so are 

 easier saved for seed from season to season. In India dry earth 

 is mixed with the seed wheat to protect it from the ravages of 

 these insects. 



By careful selecting of v»heat from Indian source's it may be 

 possible to set aside the verdict of Mr. Trollope, and prove 

 Queensland to be a great wheat-growing country, and a suitable 

 home for the British emigrant. 



