120 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Ava., 1902. 
Tropical Industries. 
TOBACCO NOTES AND CLIPPINGS. 
By R. 8S, NEVILL. 
Certain members of Parliament in Sweden are advocating State monopoly 
of the tobacco industry in preference to increased duties, to prevent the ruin 
of the local industry. ' 
It is said the American Tobacco Company have tried to secure the 
monopoly of the tobacco trade from France, and offered more than the Goyern- 
ment now realises from it. 
Total export of tobacco and its manufacture from Cuba in 1901 was 
valued at £6,000,000. 
Experiments by the United States Department of Agriculture show that 
best results are obtained with tobacco harvested or cut late in the day ; also 
better results are obtained by harvesting in bright, warm weather rather than 
- dull, cloudy weather. 
It was shown that thoroughly ripe tobacco gave a larger yield and cured a 
better colour than tobacco only half ripe or beginning to ripen. 
Other experiments show they have great trouble in securing a desirable 
cure in very dry weather and in arid districts. 
EXPERIMENTS IN FERTILISING. 
At the Kentucky Experiment Station potassium chloride proved more 
efficient than the carbonates of potassium and magnesium. 
At the Virginia Station dry blood gave the best results as a source of 
nitrogen. 
COFFEE CULTURE IN QUEENSLAND, No. 11. 
By Mr. HOWARD NEWPORT, Instructor in Coffee Culture. 
SraKine. 
The necessity, in opening up areas under coffee, for avoiding such localities 
as are subject to strong wind has been pointed out in the article, ‘Selection of 
Land and Locality,” Queensland Agricultural Journal, April, 1900, under the 
heading of “ Aspect”; and some of the damage that may occur through wind 
mentioned in the chapter on the ‘Treatment of Young Plants in the Field,” 
under the heading of ‘‘ wind-rung” plants, and the necessity, in consequence, 
of staking there hinted at. 
The staking or supporting of young coffee-trees by means of a strong 
stake is not an inevitable work or expensive, but nevertheless frequently 
becomes necessary for various reasons, such as the fact of the unavoidably bad 
aspect of the clearing, the unexpected occurrence of wind after the scrub has 
been removed, or the removal of natural wind-belts or wind-breaks in extending 
a clearing, or by one’s neighbour's clearing. The prevailing wind should be 
noted carefully when opening, but this in itself is not enough, and any 
susceptibility to wind should be carefully looked for after the plants have been 
put out into the field. The damage that may be caused by wind is not merely 
that of wind, ring-barking the trees, or straining the roots, as described in 
“Treatment of Young Plants in the Field,’ Queensland Agricultural Journal, 
