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Australia : The Dairy Country. 



Capital may be safely expended for dairy practice, especially 

 by careful and intelligent men who have families, and they may 

 depend upon making a good living, especially when they combine 

 dairy practice with pig-raising. There are many instances where 



Interior of a Cheese Factory. 



gross returns are obtained of from $38.40 to $72.00 per cow per 

 annum, and this in districts where the milk is sold to the local co- 

 operative or private factories, but where they are situated within 

 forty miles of Adelaide, and are able to take advantage of a good 

 train service, they can deliver their milk to the capital and obtain 

 gross returns equal to about $76.80 to $96.00 per cow per annum. 



WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



The Dairying Industry has not developed as rapidly as other 

 branches of farming in the State during recent years. The cause 

 of this is attributable to various reasons, one of the number of 

 which has been the difficulty of obtaining suitable farm labourers. 

 The majority of young men who have embarked in farming in the 

 Western State during the last decade have favoured the lightly- 

 timbered belts more suitable for wheat and sheep raising in pre- 

 ference to the heavily-timbered land suitable for dairying situated 

 in the coastal districts of the south-west. That there is in the 

 State an enormous area of land which is eminently adaptable to 

 the growing of fodders necessary for successful dairying has been 

 amply demonstrated. Since 1905 indefatigable efforts to advance 

 the Dairying Industry have been made. An estate at Brunswick, 



