382 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 May, 1902. 
While the unfortunate decision of the Federal Parliament to place calicoes 
and similar goods in the free list, or subject to a minor duty, has given a 
disastrous blow to the prospects of reviving the manufacture of cotton goods 
in this State, and thereby deprives the whole Commonwealth of so valuable an 
industry as this form of textile manufacture, we must’not lose sight of the 
fact that in our hands we have the possibilities of making a splendid market 
in the Orient for the raw cotton. The value of the by-products, as instanced 
from American sources, will also be to us a factor of profit not to be ignored. 
In once again presenting this, to me, familiar subject to the notice of the 
readers of the Journal, I trust my presentment of these facts, founded as they 
are more on experience than opinion, will prove of service in attracting atten- 
tion to an industry that must in the natural order of things at no remote date 
once more prove itself to be one of the soundest and most profitable of our 
agricultural pursuits. It may not be generally known that in the year 1871 
this State exported to England 2,602,100 lb. of ginned cotton, realising 
£79,317, the ruling price then being 73d. per lb. Taking into account the 
value of by-products then wasted, the profits should figure out very nearly the 
same. In that year the area under crop in cotton is given as 12,962 acres, 
years after the bonus had expired. 
NOTES ON THE QUEENSLAND RICE INDUSTRY. 
By FRED. WM. PEEK, Loganholme. 
Since my last communication on this valuable industry, the notes of which 
appeared in the December number of the Journal, we have experienced a very 
trying time in the rice fields, and there is no gainsaying the fact that owing to 
the protracted drought our rice-growers haye had one of the worst seasons for 
the growth of this cereal ever experienced. In the Login district especially 
the crops have suffered very severely, particularly the experimental patches of 
new varieties which had been procured in the hope of obtaining a rice more 
suitable to our general conditions, both as regards climate and our methods of 
cultivation, and it is fortunate that a small parcel of each variety obtained was 
held over from immediate planting in case of failure for further testing under 
different conditions. I am also pleased to state that in response to my 
inquiries and request I have received further samples of rice seed, which have 
come safely to hand, and which I shall be happy to distribute at the proper 
time to those willing to undertake the careful cultivation necessary to obtain 
accurate results from the experiment. 
So far, one thing has been proved—that is, that several of the so-called 
swamp varieties have done well, even with a small amount of moisture and 
without the inundation that was deemed necessary for such varieties. I have 
also received most valuable information from the Director of Lands, Records, 
and Agriculture, of Assam, C. Sarma, Esq., and from the Director of Lands 
and Agriculture, Burmah, A. Gaitsdell, Esq., as to the varieties of seed for- 
warded, which I here give for general information, together with a list of the 
new varieties. 
Name or Rick SEED From Kamrup, Assam: Four Varieties RECEIVED. 
1. Rangjuli Ahu. 
2. Tengrai Ahu. 
Particulars for Both. 
‘Grown on dry land and requiring no inundation. Usually sown broad- 
cast ; period of growth, four months.” 
Names oF RIceE. 
3. Tulasi Ioha. 
4. Bar (sali) or Bardhan. 
