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exporters. Amongst these may be mentioned tinned fish and turtle. Our 
seas and rivers teem with excellent fish, which only await the advent of some 
enterprising capitalist to be turned into a source of considerable revenue. 
Linseed and castor-oil also deserve attention. ‘The latter is derived from a 
plant which grows on any soil; the most wretched rocky soils will produce 
luxuriant crops of the éastor-oil bean, and cultivation is scarcely required. 
Vanilla is another product which might be profitably grown in the far Northern 
districts, and nutmegs would find a congenial home on the Herbert and other 
Northern rivers. It may truly be said that there are very few products of the 
soil which cannot be grown to a profit in this colony, Cotton and maize 
would not pay to export; but Queensland cotton during the American War was 
exported in large quantities, and realised over 1s. per lb. for Uplands and a 
higher price for Sea Island. Another product which should receive attention 
is camphor. ‘The camphor laurel adapts itself apparently to any climate here, 
and thrives most luxuriantly. The camphor forests of Formosa are being 
destroyed in the same manner as the rubber-trees of the Orinoco, and it would 
be advantageous to grow these trees in a colony so eminently suited for their 
culture. Dye woods and tanuin bark and nuts should also figure in our 
exports. Only lately we have heard of the Divi Divi nut, which, according to 
Mr. E. Cowley, of the Kamerunga State Nursery at Cairns, thrives well and 
produces crops from which a net profit of 18s. per tree may be derived per 
annum. ‘This tree thrives on any soil. Its dried pods are worth from £10 to 
£12 per ton in the London market. It may be planted on poor, overcropped, 
weed-encumbered laud from which no ordinary cultivation would produce a 
profitable crop. 
Ginger, again, is a crop which adapts itself to many Queensland soils and 
climates. In the Blackall Range it is being grown to a profit with very Jittle 
Jabour. If our farmers could be induced to make a commencemert with some 
of these plants in their spare time, their children would bless their forethought. 
They should emulate the example of the old German farmer. At the age of 
eighty years he began to plant an orchard of fruit trees. When his little erandson 
asked him if he ever hoped to reap the fruit of his industry, he replied that he 
‘vas planting for posterity, as his forefathers did for him. 
