AUSTRALIA AND HER FARMS.,
Hero are somo facts aboNt Australian farming. The typical West Australian bush can be cleared at a cost of thirty-three shillings an acre. In ploughing 500 acres for wheat eight horses will walk 850 miles; in cultivating-; it another 500'miles; in harrowing it twice 600 miles; in seednig it 500 miles; in harrowing again 300 miles; in harvesting it 500 miles. Then there are 20 journeys to the railway, each with 100 bags of wheat—a distance of 24 miles each time from our correspondent's farm. Fencing is a great item. in Australian farming.. A farm of 1000 acres requires about five miles of fencing with'4-0 bored posts to each mile. Then there are the fenced sub-divisions into paddocks, of 150 to 200 acres. Altogether a farm of 1000 acres would need about 20 miles of posts. This is the kind of labour needed for the birth of a nation; but tho time is coming, when Australia will take her place as a great Power.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 20
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