432 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Junz, 1902. 
district 78 acres failed for hay, mainly owing to drought, and 246 acres totally 
failed for grain, the frost being accountable for 75 acres and hail for 119 acres. 
In Warwick 215 acres were badly rusted, and were therefore burnt. Seventy- 
seven acres totally failed in Dalby. At Nanango 699 acres yielded 15,540 
bushels, an average of 22:23 bushels per acre. No rust appeared in any field 
in this district. 
The greatest quantity of wheat was harvested at Allora, Toowoomba, 
Warwick, Roma, Dalby, Killarney, and Highfields, in the order named. 
Only 2 acres were reaped for grain in the Townsville district, and both 
were affected by rust. 
The acreage mown for hay, 9,719 acres, yielded 15,096 tons, or an average 
of 1°55 tons per acre. 
There are eighteen flour-mills in operation in the State which treated, 
during 1901, 1,244,505 bushels, making 26,093 tons of flour. The value of 
wheat rose considerably as the season advanced, reaching 3s. 2}d. per bushel. 
The total value of the Queensland wheat crop, at 8s. per bushel, represents 
£253,833. 
The wheat yield of South Australia for the past season is stated to have 
been 8,012,762 bushels from 1,415,658 acres, an average yield of 5°66 bushels 
per acre. These returns show that whilst the South Australian farmer gets a 
gross return of 16s. 6d. per acre, the Queensland wheat-grower, putting the 
price at 3s. per bushel, has pocketed £2 18s. per acre, and those who obtained 
a yield such as that at Nanango and several other districts, £3 7s. 6d. per 
acre ; the cost of ploughing, sowing, and harvesting being slightly greater in 
Queensland than in South Australia. 
THE EMPEROR WILLIAM’S CHILDREN. 
It is a very interesting sketch of the children of the German Emperor 
which Miss Hulda Friederichs contributes to the Young Woman. They are 
apparently brought up in a simple, not to say plain, way. At the tea-table, the 
Empress, who is adored by her children, “ herself cuts the bread and butter for 
her bairns,’ and anything beyond the frugal cup of milk is regarded as a 
luxury. The youngest child, the only girl, the little Princess Louise, is now 
emerging from the infantile despotism which she at first exercised over every- 
body. Her august father once confessed, with a smile, that “he found it more 
difficult to make that young person do his bidding than to rule the German 
Empire.” 
Two FarmMeEr-Princes. 
The Kaiser seems bent on turning his sons to good account by assigning 
them from early days to different departments in the State. He is preparing 
two of them for grappling with the Agrarian problem. The writer says :— 
‘« By this time the young princes are all quickly growing up into young men. 
The two eldest are training for the army; the third for the navy, if, after a 
year’s trial, it is found that he has got sufficiently accustomed to life at sea to 
have overcome the malaise which seemed at first to prevent his ever becoming 
a sailor-prince. The next two boys are at Plon, the large boys’ training-college 
near Berlin, where the elder boys, also, have spent some years with their tutors, 
But Prince August and Prince Oscar are to study agriculture, in order to be 
able, later on, to enter practically into the Agrarian question, which in Germany 
is one of the most complicated and difficult problems ever before the Govern- 
ment. ‘The way in which the Imperial princes are made to take up this subject 
should certainly lead them to a thoroughly practical knowledge. A farm ‘has 
been taken for them, and they and six of their school-fellows have not only to 
work this farm—under the supervision and advice of experts, of course—but 
also to make it pay. There is pasture land for their two cows. There are a 
few acres of grain, and a good many acres of vegetables and potatoes. There 
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