of his time in taking them to the public wells. Spare no effort to 

 clear and cultivate a larger area every year, remembering that it is 

 the difference in the quantity of the harvest, not in the number of 

 unimproved acres, that creates most of the distinction between the 

 large holder, who employs labour, and the small holder, who is for- 

 tunate if he has not to sell his labour during the first starting years 

 in order to make ends meet." 



Mr. W. H. Angove, surveyor, of the Crown Lands department 

 staff, who has done a great deal of professional work in the 

 southern district, and who knows it thoroughly, has kindly con- 

 densed the results of his experience and observation in the follow- 

 ing statement : "There are very good roads to the land belonging 

 to the Crown that is open for selection all through the Broome- 

 hill and Kojonup and Plantagenet districts. In and around Albany 

 the roads are not all that could be desired, but they are passable, 

 and fast being brought into better order by the roads board. I 

 consider that in taking up a homestead farm of 160 acres it would 

 be essential for a successful start that a man should have not less 

 than 100. If he takes up 500 acres he should have, in my judg- 

 ment, 160. There are no surveyed agricultural areas near 

 Albany. I have recommended the plotting of an area south-east of 

 Broomehill, and shall recommend others, as there are many good 

 sites to select from. There are schools at Broomehill, Kojonup, 

 Cranbrook, Mount Barker, Denmark, King river, and Albany. I 

 should recommend to a man of small means, having, say, from ,100 

 to 200, from 1 60 acres to 600 acres. All the produce grown in 

 the Broomehill district is readily sold, and I believe produce grown 

 lower down around Mount Barker and districts in the neighbor- 

 hood of Albany is readily disposed of. I do not consider the rail- 

 way freights for produce are especially low, particularly as regards 

 small parcels. At the same time, as far as my knowledge goes, I 

 should say the cultivators of few countries have so good a market 

 as that of Western Australia. Broomehill and Kojonup grow 

 wheat, hay, and wool to the best advantage ; Mount Barker and 

 Frankland river excel in wheat, hay, potatoes, and fruit, while root 

 crops, vegetables, and fruit do exceedingly well on the Porong- 

 orup range, and at Denmark, Torbay, and the Albany district. The 

 land in the Broomehill district requires manuring to some extent 

 every year, or fallowing. When this is done good averages are 

 obtained. I should think the land would soon exhaust itself other- 

 wise. No one has made a specialty of orchard or vine-growing in 

 the Broomehill and Kojonup districts. Nearly every farmer has a 

 few acres of fruit trees ; I should say 200 acres would cover the 

 two districts. Mount Barker, Frankland river (Yoouminiup), and 

 Forest Hill districts have some old orchards, but not, I think, vine- 

 yards. The total orchard area would probably be about 100 acres. 

 Around Albany there are a few small orchards ; the whole area 

 would probably be no more than 100 acres. Many of the cultiva- 



