1 Suny, 1901.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 1 
Agricultural Conference. 
The importance of the proceedings at the Bundaberg Conference is, at the 
resent juncture, so significant that we feel sure our readers will willingly 
eee the Journal in its usual form for this month. Of the five Conferences 
held by the agriculturists of the State since 1897, we believe that of June, 
1901, to have excelled the previous ones both in number of delegates, in the 
great extent of country represented, in the zeal and earnestness which the 
delegates brought to their work, and in the many thoughtful papers on subjects 
of the deepest importance not only to the single districts but to the national 
welfare itself. We need not enlarge on any of the subjects discussed. In the 
following pages it will be seen that the work of the Conference was 
entrusted to a body of thoughtful, highly intelligent, -practical men— 
men with no small parochial ideas, men who can look ahead, and, 
foreseeing either danger or prosperity in the near future, came to that 
Conference prepared for either lot. But they came armed with facts 
and figures incontrovertible and undeniable, and brought to bear on the discus- 
sions the whole weight of their long practical experience. On the principle that 
“he is thrice armed who hath his quarrel just,” they discussed certain topics: 
in a temperate, conciliatory, but determined spirit. There were no stump: 
orators, no agitators, at that Conference. The Northern men had said: ‘ Come: 
and see.” The Southern and Central men’s reply was to a man like Cesav’s' 
laconic report: Vent, vidr, vici—only, instead of vzc7, they used victus fui. They 
came, they saw, they were overcome—that is, their preconceived ideas 
concerning the North vanished into thin air. We need say no more. The out- 
come of that Conference will be the far-reaching effect of its discussions and 
conclusions. 
What remains to be said is merely to express our admiration at the 
unbounded hospitality of the men of the Burnett and Isis, at their anxiety 
that every delegate should see all that could be seen in so short a time, at the 
facilities in the way of trains, trams, and vehicles which they placed ungrudg- 
ingly at the visitor’s disposal, and at the readiness with which all questions on. 
the sugar industry were answered, and the openness which permitted the dele- 
gates to enter mills, stores, kanaka quarters, kitchens, hospitals—in fact, every 
place of which any delegate from the South might have formed a bad opinion 
before seeing with his own eyes. Some came to curse, but all left blessing. 
An Agricultural Conference, organised by the Department of Agriculture, 
similar to the conferences held at Gatton in 1897, at Rockhampton in 1898, at 
Mackay in 1899, and at Warwick in 1900, was held at the Queen’s Theatre, 
Bundaberg, on the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th of June, !901, and was attended 
by representatives from practically all the leading agricultural, horticultural, 
and pastoral societies of the State. There were present :— 
The Hon. D. H. Dalrymple, M.L.A., Secretary for Agriculture, in the chair. 
National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland, Brisbane—J. 
A, Hayes and P. Frankel. Queensland Acclimatisation Society—L. G. Corrie and 
E. Grimley. Queensland Fruit and Economie Plantgrowers’ Association, Brisbane 
—W. P. Cooksley and C. Atthow. Horticultural Society of Queensland, Brisbane— 
J. Soutter and W. Ewart. Queensland Nurserymen’s Association, Brisbane—John 
Williams and F. Ridley. United Pastoralists’ Association of Queensland, Brisbhane— 
T. de M. Muray-Prior. Zillmere Horticultural Society—J. W. Lee and W. 
Jacklin. Upper North Pine Farmers’ Association—F. Williams and C. Hay. 
Mapleton and Dulong Fruitgrowers and Farmers’ Progressive Association — H. 
Johnson. Nambour, Blackall Range, and Moreton Agricultural, Mining, and Pastoral 
Society—G. L. Bury and E. H. Biggs. Woodford Progress Industrial Association— 
J.B. Lowry and J. B. Fletcher. Maroochy Pastoral, Agricultural, Horticultural, 
