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to obtain the best returns as the result of their labour. Instructors, thoroughly 

 conversant with the State as a whole, are also available for giving practical 

 advice, so that there is no necessity for a beginner, through lack of experience, 

 to waste any time in finding out for himself what his soil and climate are 

 suited for. He can start on the right lines from the beginning, and keep to 

 right lines if he will only take advantage of the advice, based on practical 

 experience, that is given him. Queensland is a good land for the intending 

 fruit-grower. We offer you good soil, a choice of climates, suitable for the 

 growing of practically every kind of commercial fruit, a healthy climate to 

 live in, cheap land, free education for your children, and free advice from com- 

 petent experts for yourselves. This is a country that has not been advertised 

 or puffed up ; that is, in consequence, not by any means well known ; but it is 

 a country that, taken all in all, will take a lot of beating when one is looking 

 out for a home. Its natural advantages and the other inducements it offers 

 to intending settlers, particularly those interested in fruit culture, cannot, in 

 my opinion, be equalled, and certainly not excelled, elsewhere; and, as I stated 

 in the beginning of this paper, my opinion is based on practical experience 

 gained in various parts of the fruit-producing parts of the world. 



