138 ‘QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Ave., 1899. 
The Hon. J. V. Cuaraway: In summing up this afternoon’s work, I 
think we have had an instructive discussion on tobacco. On coffee we haye 
learned a good deal, and it will encourage those who were somewhat in doubt 
as to the profitableness of the industry to know that the very satisfactory price 
of 9d. per Ib. has been offered to a Queensland grower for his crop over 
a series of years. This will doubtless encourage others to go in for the industry, 
and as the market is not inside the colony, but outside, they will probably do 
equally as well as Dr. Thomatis. Owing, perhaps, to the duty of 6d. per Ib. 
on roasted coffee, there is very little coffee consumed in Queensland. The 
amount imported into the colony is something like 157,000 1b. in weight, or the 
produce of about 120 acves. The importations of coffee into this colony therefore 
are insignificant in comparison with the immense possibilities of an industry that 
can be so profitable and at the same dispose of its produce in the open market 
of the world. Anappeal was made for the erection of a coffee-drier in the Cairns 
district at a cost of from £60 to £70. I think that is scarcely fair, s the 
profits from 2 acres of coffee in one year should be sufficient to pay for such a drier. 
The eradication of the cane grub is a matter of the greatest interest to many 
farmers both in the Bundaberg, Isis, and some of the more Northern districts. 
Tt seems to me that those districts may yet enter upon the struggle which has 
already been gone through here. You will then find in those districts the 
advantages of having a strong farmers’ association. It was the farmers’ 
association of this district that first approached the Government with the view 
of getting aid to help those who were willing to try and avert this national 
calamity, which was imminent so far as the sugar industry was concerned. 1 
think you will find, if the grub or cockchafer falls upon you with anything like 
the vigour that he fell upon this district, that mere isolated effort will be 
valueless. No mere picking up the cockchafer with a hen, or even a portable 
duckhouse, will stop this pest. Every effort will have to be made, and united 
effort alone will check a pest that preys in such multitudes. 
The Conference then adjourned. 
THIRD SESSION. . 
TuEspay, 277m June, 1899, 9°30 a.m. 
DISCUSSION ON GREEN MANURING. 
Business was commenced by dealing with a question handed in by a delegate, 
asking if cow pea would grow on poor soil, Hiich as would not produce crops 
without manure ; and in connection therewith Mr. Deacon (Allora) stated that 
he desired to make an explanation. On the previous afternoon he had said cow 
pea was no good for grazing. He did not refer to fodder, as some of the 
delegates had appeared to think. It was understood in his district that stock 
would not eat it green. 
Mr. McLean: Mr. A. A. Ramsay, of the Sugar Experiment Station, tells 
me that cow pea does do well on poor land. ‘The finest crop of cow peas I have 
seen myself were grown at St. Helena, from the first seed we imported from 
America, on land that had been under cane for a number of years. There were 
several acres of them, about 3 feet high, as level as a table, and in such a solid 
mags that you could have walked right oyer the top of them. 
Mr. BE. Denman (Mackay): Atthe last Conference, Mr. Adams told us that 
cow pea would grow on very poor land. 
In reply to a question, Mr, L. P. Lanpspera (Rockhampton) stated that 
the cow pea he grew was the clay-coloured. 
Mr. P. McLean: It would be just as well to warn delegates against the 
black eye cow pea. It is a very inferior grower, and altogether it is not a 
desirable pea for farmers to grow. - 
Mr. B. O. Brookes (Johnstone River): I may say that I have never found 
that green manuring had the effect of producing grubs. We have had grubs all 
the time, whether we green manured or not. It appears to me, however, that 
