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that required a?good deal of consideration. It might not be possible to do it, 
at any rate, next year, but, as Mr. Lindeman had said, he thought the matter 
could be best left in the hands of the Department. If the holding of it in the 
North were practicable,'they might rest assured the Department would be only 
too delighted to hold it:there. 
RESOLUTIONS. 
Mr. E. Swayne then moved, and Mr. Marxs seconded, the following 
resolution, which was carried unanimously :—“ In the event of these conferences 
being continued next year it is desirable that a.committee, comprising Messrs. 
F. W. Peek, M. O'Keefe, S. A. Lindeman, T. HE. Coulson, T. Whiteley, W. R. 
Twine, and E. Swayne, be appointed for the purpose of corresponding in the 
interim, and, if possible, bringing forward at the next meeting a scheme for 
carrying into execution the ideas contained in the papers that have been read 
at this meeting dealing with organised and co-operative action on the part of 
farmers.” 
Mr. Denman then moved, and Captain Hunry seconded, the following :— 
“That this Conference, composed of delegates from every part of the colony, 
desires to urge the Government of Queensland and the Governments of 
the other Australasian Colonies to point out to the Imperial authorities that 
the bounty system now in vogue in European beet-producing countries 
threatens to extinguish the cane-sugar industry in Queensland in common 
with all British cane-sugar-producing countries, and to request them, by 
countervailing duties or by such other methods as to them appear best, to pro- 
tect the colonies from this unfair competition.” On being put, this resolution 
was carried, the only dissenting voice being that of Mr. K. Bytheway (Gympie). 
SEVENTH SESSION. 
Fripay Eventrne, 18ra May, 1898. 
COFFEE. 
Mr. T. A. Brominey (Pialba): I must apologise, Mr. Chairman, for not 
having prepared a paper. I must say in the outset, before proceeding with the 
matter of coffee-growing, that it must be quite clearly borne in mind that what 
I have to say has only reference to what 1 myself have done. I shall make no 
reference whatever, except perhaps by the way, to what may have been done in 
other coffee-crowing countries. I might have selected some other subject, 
but from what I have seen in the Agricultural Journal I concluded there 
was a considerable amount of interest in coffee. I thought, perhaps, the 
experience gained in six years by myself might be of use, particularly 
as I started feeling very gently into it. I did not invest a very great 
amount of money in it, because I was not at all sure how it would do as a 
plantation. I had seen it grow under all sorts of conditions. I had seen it 
grow in all aspects, in various qualities of soil, and at various altitudes above 
the sea: from just a little above the tide water to where I am now, and so far 
as I know I have the highest-point growing coffee in our district. I have seen 
it doing well on hungry granite. 1 have seen it growing on almost a stone 
quarry, where fifteen or sixteen year old trees gave splendid crops; only in 
one case have I seen it fail, and in that case if was right on the sea-beach, or 
nearly in the sea-sand, but certainly not more than 20 feet above tide water, 
and éxposed all the time to the northerly winds. There has been a great deal 
said about this plant coffee by growers, and those who have had experience in 
foreign countries, about how it should be treated from the seedling right 
away up to its maturity. I have found that at many points we touch, 
but I have also found there are many points to be observed here 
that do not tally with the methods adopted in coffee-growing countries. 
Before going on with the methods I have adopted in my plantation, I 
