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Irrigation Farming; in Australia. 



there is also a small extra levy for stock and domestic rate. (The 

 water rate at Werribee is at present $4.80 an acre.) Fifty acre feet 

 (which means using the equivalent of I ft. deep of water all over 

 the 50 acres) thus costs 50 x $1.20, equal to $60.00 a year. 



South Australia. 



There are again some slight differences in details of settlement 

 and advances. Each State Government, the settler should re- 

 member, is doing this closer settlement work at cost price, in the 

 interests of increasing the farming area, and the cost price does not 

 greatly vary all along the river. The State Governments have all 

 developed finance of advances to settlers to a fine art. If the 

 intending settler procures full particulars from each State, and 

 works them out, he will find that he can get Government money to 

 start with from each of them on very much the same terms, and 

 there are no terms so cheap anywhere else in the world to-day. 



FIRST CROPS OFF THE 

 VIRGIN LAND. 



The water for irrigation in South Australia, for instance, costs 

 more having to be pumped and the rate is $7.20 per acre foot. 

 But for the first year only a quarter rate is imposed, and not till 



