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to 155. per acre. A number of paddocks enclosed by a sheep proof 

 fence have been effectually cleared of this danger to stock. The 

 shrub is most deadly when it is making a new growth after a 

 " burn," or when it is in the flowering stage. 



Those who are entitled to speak with experience of the 

 Williams district inform our representative that a great deal of 

 progress is being made towards adding to its productiveness by 

 providing supplies of wheat and fodder for home consumption. 

 The railway policy of the Government is regarded as an earnest of 

 Sir John Forrest's appeal to the farmers of Western Australia, and 

 to others who desire an excellent opening to become farmers, to 

 lessen the outflow' of money for the food grown elsewhere ; it has 

 given, we are told, a strong incentive to put more land every year 

 under crop, and to farm it according to the most' approved methods. 

 " Five years ago," said Mr. Cornwall, who is one of the largest 

 cultivators, "there was not a stump jump plough in the district ; now 

 there are more than thirty of these implements between the 

 Williams river and Camballing, all of two or three furrows." A 

 plough made in the colony is preferred for its lightness, strength, 

 and suitableness for finely breaking up the soil. Some superior 

 heavy draught horses have been imported to expedite work on a 

 large scale and enable sowing to be done early enough to allow the 

 seed to be germinated by the first autumn rains. Besides wool, hay, 

 and wheat, the minor resources of the district include pig-breeding. A 

 good many fowls are also profitably kept, the birds finding their own 

 living around the haystacks and in the stubble fields, for many months 

 of the year. Many consignments of fowls are sent to supply the 

 hotels and the shipping at Albany. The latitude and excellent 

 drainage of the undulating valley of the Williams, are all in favour 

 of the poultry-keeper, and when freight trains supersede the long 

 journey of the wagon, which, in summer, greatly distresses the birds 

 on their way to the market, the farmers assure us that they will make 

 poultry-raising a larger auxiliary source of income than it is now. 



A synopsis of the information collated in reply to the enquiries 

 made by the reporter of the Bureau for the SETTLER'S Grim: is here 

 given : The roads to the lands that are open for selection belong- 

 ing to the Crown (and which have this year been greatly added to 

 by the purchase of the Great Southern line) are in excellent order, 

 unless the settler, in order to get an unusually good garden block, 

 makes his way over the hills to the banks of one of the many brooks 

 which feed the Hotham, orthe other rivers which have been named. 

 The Pinjarrah and the Williams Roads boards last year co-operated 

 in clearing the main road between Pinjarrali and the Williams river 

 over its entire length, in order to afford the greatest possible facility 

 for the conveyance of produce to the railway station. This road is 

 comparatively level, and as it was marked out to tnivci>e as much 

 ironstone which is a naturally macadamised highway as was prac- 

 ticable, without making too great a detour, the heavest loading can 



