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WHEATGROWING IN AUSTRALIA. 



. AUSTRALIA'S AVERAGE WHEAT YIELD is PROM 11 TO 13 BUSHELS PER ACRE, BUT THOUSANDS 



OF FARMS YIELD FROM 20 TO 25 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 



Australia has the land and climate ; she wants the men. 



There is a large area of country in Victoria, South Australia, 

 and New South Wales known as the Mallee, the name being 

 derived from a dense dwarf eucalyptus scrub which covers the land 

 in its natural state. For a long period this land was deemed unfit 

 for wheatgrowing on account mainly of the low rainfall, and, away 

 from the River Murray, absence of water supply. Experience has 

 long since proved that it is very profitable wheat land when pro- 

 perly worked, while the discovery of a sub-artesian water supply 

 and good water-holding country has overcome 'most of the difficulty 

 that first faced settlement. There is a large area of this land 

 available for share farming, and a great area is also being opened 

 up for settlement, particularly in South Australia. There is thus 

 a sound prospect fronting the new settler, as he might start on the 

 Mallee country share farming, and on what he has earned establish 

 himself on a holding of his own, with all the advantage of a practical 

 experience of that particular type of land and the climate. The 

 Mallee soil is mostly sandy loam, but red and black loams, varying 

 from sand to clay, are found. It is a low elevation above sea level, 

 but the country is undulating. The vegetation is reckoned a sound 

 guide to the quality of the soil for wheatgrowing ; indeed, this same 



