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WHEATGROWING IN AUSTRALIA. 



tilisers, &c., at the lowest possible rate compatible with the rail- 

 ways covering working expenses and depreciation of stock.. Special 

 rates are made for long distances. The rates vary in the different 

 States, but it can be confidently said that they prove no hindrance 

 to successful wheatgrowing. As all the wheat grown in Australia 

 has to be carried to the seaboard on the railways, the particulars 

 of success achieved, as already given, proves that. The Common- 



FARMERS ON THE WAY TO A COUNTRY SHOW. 



wealth Statistician furnishes the following particulars of State rail- 

 way rates for agricultural produce in the different States, which 

 serve as a guide to the settler : 



