128 . QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ava., 1898. 
Mr. Wurreney doubted whether chicory was mixed with the coffee in 
Rockhampton, and if it was he was under the impression that the mixture, as 
in the old country, would have to be sold under the title “coffee and chicory.” 
Chicory, in any event, could easily be grown in the colony. For his own part 
he did not think that Mr. Bromiley had by any means proved that coffee was a 
paying crop for Queensland, and, unless there was a combination among 
growers to purchase machinery, he did not think it would be possible to clean 
if on a paying scale. He had grown coffee himself on a small scale. 
Mr. J. E. Noaxrs (Maryborough) had seen Mr. Bromiley’s plantation, and 
could bear out what that gentleman had said. Nor did he think he was at all 
out in his estimates. The days of 150 per cent. profits were gone, as those 
men knew who got £2 per acre profit from maize where they used to get £10 
formerly. Mr. Bromiley was the first man in Southern Queensland to approach 
the question of coffee culture in a proper manner, and he considered his efforts 
aeould receive every encouragement. Mr. Bromiley’s trees were about 4 feet 
Heth 
Captain Henry (Lucinda Point) desired to know the size of the coffee- 
trees referred to by Mr. Stephens, and which yielded so well ? 
Mr. Stepuens (Nerang) said one was about 9 feet high, and the other 4. 
Captain Henry said he had been informed by a Ceylon planter that 
ap. of coffee per tree, just as it came off the tree, was considered a very good 
yield. 
Mr. E, Denman (Mackay) desired to know the variety of coffee grown by 
Mr. Bromiley ? 
Mr. E. Brrneway (Gympie) asked if coffee was affected by any pests. 
Mr. P, W. Cameron (Ipswich) sought information as to how far from 
the coast coffee could be grown. 
Mr. T. A. Bromiray (Pialba) said he only had five acres under coffee, 
and the reason he had not more was because he was only trying it. He was 
testing it experimentally and according to approved lines. As for the returns 
from coffee, he could tell them that 3 lb. per tree was an exceedingly good 
yield. He had seen many trees from which it was possible to get 14 1b. of 
berry per tree. As there was such a confusion in the using of terms, he would 
again say that the “ cherry’’ was the red or purple berry that was picked as a 
fruit direct from the tree. After the first process of pulping came the 
parchment. The seed coat within the parchment was known as the silverskin. 
When the coffee was got outof the parchinent and skin, and was ready for roast- 
ing, it was in the “ berry” stage. As for planting coffee seed in the place where 
it was intended the trees should grow, he would suggest that Mr. Whiteley try it. 
He had only been relating that evening strictly what he had done himself. He 
knew of one tree eleven years old which had yielded 83 1b. of berry ina season, 
and he had seen seven trees among them give 100 lb. of finished berry. He 
had not personally seen the $3-Ib. yield on the eleyen-year-old tree, but he had 
the word of the owner—who was a gentleman whose word could be taken— 
that such a crop had been taken off and sold. ‘This particular tree was 
14 feet high, and had a radius of 6 feet. It was a phenomenal tree, and every 
limb of it was pulled down by the weight of the fruit. ‘The other seven trees 
he had referred to were grown on hungry granite on the bank of a creek some 
twenty-five miles inland, and he knew for a positive fact that they had yielded 
100 Ib. of berry in a single crop. Those trees were nearly twenty years old. 
Such trees, however, were record ones, and it would be unwise to take them 
into any calculations. Ifa grower in a plantation was successful in producing 
an average of from 2 to 24 lb. of berry per tree, he would get as good a crop 
as could be produced in any part of the world. It should be bornein mind 
that in a plantation the trees must not attain any height. In the first place, if 
they grow high, the trees are pulled a great deal about by the wind, and the 
wind is a great enemy to the coffee. Again, he was convinced that it cost 
every penny of the berries to collect them with ladders. In Ceylon it is said 
