386 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {i Dsc., 1902. 
62°549 per cent. of the whole are in the neighbourhood of Brisbane. Next to 
the banana and the pineapple among the fruits for the supply of which the 
other States of Australia look to Queensland, may be classed the mango, though 
it is at present a much less profitable export than either. Attention may also. 
be drawn to the citrus fruits, the cultivation and export of which are annually 
expanding. The picking time being earlier here than in the South, good prices 
can be obtained by the grower if care be taken to send only the best fruit to 
market. The area under oranges in 1901 was 3,088 acres, an increase of 201 
acres over the previous year. The production, however, fell from 2,041,068 
dozen in 1900 to 1,880,264 dozen in 1901. The Maroochy district has 674 
acres under crop, and the Maryborough district 864 acres. The total area 
under grape vines fell from 2,019 acres to 1,990 in 1901, but the yield 
increased trom 3,634,949 |b. in 1900 to 4,063,109 lb. in 1901, the average yield 
for the latter year being 2,403 1b. of grapes to theacre. The season was fairly 
good, the average being the highest for the past five years. The Roma district 
far exceeds other districts for the cultivation of the grape vine, the total area 
under vines there for 1901 being 550 acres, Brisbane coming next with 162 
acres. In 1901 there were 588 manufacturers, who made 148,835 gallons of 
wine and 1,112 gallons of brandy. The imports for the year were valued at 
£31,140, represented by 5,054 gallons of sparkling and 51,037 gallons of other 
wine. Though with interstate freetrade much wine will be imported from the 
South, Queensland vignerons would be able to command the local markets if 
they took the advice of the Viticulturist as to the kinds of grapes to be grown 
and the kind of soil to be planted with them. 
“ Tobacco.—Practically the whole of the Queensland tobacco crop is grown 
in the Carnarvon district Of the total area of 768 acres under crop in 1901, 
692 acres were in the Texas and 72 acres in the Inglewood district. The 
average production was better than in 1900, the yield being 76 ecwt., as 
against 61 cwt. per acre in the latter year. A small area formerly under 
tobacco in the Cairns and Cardwell districts has apparently been abandoned or 
turved to other uses. The increase for 1901 as against 1900 was 103 acres 
and 1,816 ewt. of leaf. The value this industry might become to Queensland— 
for there seems to be no doubt about the suitability of our soil and climate for 
tobacco-growing—is shown bv the value of the imports, which, for all classes 
of tobacco, amounted to £100,315 in 1901, £91,766 in 1900, and £110,075 in 
1899. 
“ Coffee.—The area under productive trees in 1901 was 370 acres, and that 
under non-productive trees 177 acres ; the increase in the productive area was 
87 acres. The yield for the year was 180,293 lb., but, in a comparison with, 
the yield for 1900, shows a decrease of 9 Ib. per acre, the yield for 19U0 being 
361 |b. to the acre. It is in the North that coffee cultivation is most closely 
followed. There were in that division of the State 47% acres under coffee out 
of a total for the whole of 547 acres. The Cairns district, in which the 
Instructor in Coffee Culture has his headquarters, had 213 acres under cultiva-. 
tion, the district next in area being Mackay with 49 acres. The imports for 
1901 were valued at £6,153, and the exports at £215. It is estimated that the 
present production is equal to only 45 per cent. of our requirements. Our 
coffee-growers, therefore, have still scope for considerable expansion before 
local wants are fully satisfied ; after which there still remains the wider field 
of enterprise left open to them by the wants of the other parts of the Common- 
wealth. Mr. Newport, in the early part of this year, visited Victoria and New 
South Wales to bring the Queensland coffee under the notice of the public and 
to ascertain what share this State could reasonably expect to have in the trade 
generally. The annual imports of coffee into Victoria and New South Wales. 
amount to about 300 tons each, and into South Australia, West Australia, and 
Tasmania about 400 tons. Excluding Queensland, the requirements of the 
Commonwealth amount to about 1,000 tons a year. The production in the. 
State for 1901 slightly exceeded 58 tons. 
