WHEATGROWING IN AUSTRALIA. 



mean a reasonable margin of profit In such districts it is estimated 

 that a lo-bushel crop per acre will pay $0.60 per bushel. Of late 

 years the price received by growers has averaged about $0.84 per 

 bushel. 



The average return does not show what a district or country 



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is capable of producing, as it is reduced by the low yields of careless- 

 and unskilled farmers. The men are responsible, and not the soil: 

 or climate.. There are thousands of farmers who never have a lower 

 average than 20 to 25 bushels, while in some well-farmed districts 

 a whole locality has averaged nearly 30 bushels to the acre. The 

 whole tendency now is towards more careful methods and higher 

 averages, and this will mean greater prosperity for the farmers. 

 As it is, men have been wonderfully successful in growing wheat 

 in Australia, and if this is the case with the careless, largely happy- 

 go-lucky style of the past, the }-rospecfc is extremely promising for 

 the future. In a way, new men coming into Australia, and taking 

 up wheatgrowing, stand a better chance than many of the long- 

 settled farmers who have got into a groove even a profitable one 

 and who do not care to bother greatly with progressive ideas. The 

 new comer has no preconceived notions, and comes with an open 

 mind adaptable to the teachings of experience. 



