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size, location, and price of each with a description of its improvements, equip- 

 ment, etc. 



Rural settlement, J. B. Trivett {Off, Ycarhool;. N. S. Wales, 1909-10, pp. 

 J/S7-506). — This chapter presents data relative to alienation, size of holdings, 

 etc., of crown lands in New South Wales for a period of years. Excluding from 

 consideration land held simply under lease of the Ci'own, it is shown that there 

 were in the State at the end of March, ISSO, 39,918 alienated holdings averaging 

 569 acres each, and at the end of March, 1910, 85,178 holdings averaging 002 

 acres each, Tables are given showing the number, size, etc., of holdings for 

 each division of the State for a period of years, together with other tables 

 showing the nature and extent of the various rural pursuits and the number of 

 persons engaged in each. 



[Land tenure and settlement], G. H. Knibbs (Off. Ycarhoolc Aust., // {1901- 

 1910), pp. 29.'i-309). — The report here points out that in all the States of Aus- 

 tralia acts have been passed authorizing the government to repurchase alienated 

 lands for the purpose of cutting them up into farms or blocks of suitable size 

 and thi'owing them open to settlement on easy terms and conditions. 



The total area acquired up to June 30, 1910, amounted to 2,107,886 acres, 

 the purchase price being £6,904,300. The farms allotted, excluding Western 

 Australia, numbered 6,205 with a total area of 1,858,563 acres. 



Tables are given showing particulars of labor settlements, settlement lands, 

 allotments, prices of alienation, etc. 



Land tenure, G. H. Knibbs {Off. Yearbook Aust., J, {WOl-1910), pp. 1111, 

 111.2). — In this article it is explained how a settler may obtain a leasehold of 

 the best class of agricultural land in Papua for any period up to 99 years. 



Cooperation among' farmers: Ethical principles involved, E. M. Tousle Y 

 {Grain Groicers' Guide, 4 {1911), No. 20, pp. 7, 18, fig. 1). — ^Au address delivered 

 before the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Kew Jersey State Board of 

 Agriculture, Trenton, N. J., January 19-21. 1910, in which the author discusses 

 the ethical principles involved in cooperation, showing that confidence, loyalty, 

 unselfishness, self-control, and mutual helpfulness are the basic principles upon 

 which successful cooperation must rest. 



Government loans to farmers, G. H. Knibbs {Off. Yeairbook^Aiist., // {1901- 

 1910), pp. 430-Ji38). — Notes and statistics are here presented showing that all 

 the Australian States have established systems under which financial aid is 

 rendered to farmers by the government for the purpose of purchasing or paying 

 off incumbrances on land, making improvements, or developing the resources of 

 the land or building homes thereon. The table below, compiled from figures 

 furnished by the Government Savings Bank of Victoria, gives particulars of 

 loans throughout the Commonwealth made to farmers from 1908 to 1910, 

 inclusive : 



Ammiut, balanee iJue, ami profits made on government loans to farmers in 



Australia, 1908 to 1910. 



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