AUSTRALIA: 

 Dairy Country. 



The suitability of Australia as a country for the dairyman is 

 referred to in the report of the Scottish Agricultural Commission,* 

 who toured the States of the Commonwealth in 1910-11, in the 

 following terms : 



" The practice of dairying, in a limited domestic sense, as applied 

 to the milking of a few cows and the making of a little butter and 



An up-to-date Milking Yard. 



* The personnel of the Commission was as follows : Sir T. Carlaw Martin, Edin- 

 burgh (Chairman); Sir John R. G. Sinclair, Bart., Barrock House, Wick (Vice 

 Chairman) ; Dr. J. H. Wilson, F.R.S.E., St. Andrew's University ; Dr. Shirra Gibb 

 Boon, Lauder ; William Barber, M.A., Tererran, Moniaive ; J. McHutchen Dobbie, 

 Campend, Dalkeith ; James Dunlop, Kilmarnock ; R. B. Greig, F.R.S.E, Cults; Wil- 

 liam Henderson, Lawton, Coupar-Angus ; James Keith, Pitmeddan, Udny ; E. E. 

 Morrison, M.A., Bonnington, Stravithie ; and Alex. M. Prain, Errol (Secretary). 



