LAND VALUES IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13486, 13 May 1907, Page 7

LAND VALUES IN AUSTRALIA.

A SOTTTHT.AND resident, who lias just returned after spending some months in Australia, states that he has collected some absolutely reliable information in regard to the value of land in the Commonwealth, as indicated by the producing-power. Some of the most fertile lands are on river flats in New South Wales and South Queensland, and in certain districts in Victoria. There he found a farm of seven acres given entirely to the cultivation-of onions. The onion crop in this district averages 15 tons. per acre, and the return, from seven acres was £762. Bacchus Marsh is one of the most fertile districts in Victoria. Here one acre of lucerne' fed—in hay, ensilage, and green food, according to the seasonssis cows and twelve horses, and kept them in excellent condition for the whole year. Stock were not allowed the run, of the. field, but the crop was cut and given to the stock. In the best districts the lucerne crop can be ciit • isix times in the season. In' North Queensland the value - of river fiat. land' suitable for dairying is from £2 art acre to between £10 and £15. In the'extreme north of - Victoria, -where the average New Zealander imagines there is ; nothing but sandy parched wastes, there is magnificent wheat land; with a mean annual rainfall of from 20in to 25in.