Photograph from Government Publicity Department, Sydney 

 WHEAT TEAMS LEAVING A FARM IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT : NEW SOUTH WALES 



They do most things in Australia on a large scale, and, next to sheep raising, agriculture 

 is the principal industry. At present there are possibly 10,000.000 acres of land under culti- 

 vation, and approximately two-thirds of it is devoted to the production of breadstuffs. The 

 enormous wagons, on which are piled nearly a hundred great bags of grain, are drawn by 

 teams of ten or twelve horses from the farms to the railroad, sometimes many miles away. 



old and what they think is good advan- 

 tage and those who dream of a new and 

 better order. The pomp of a statelv and 

 well-ordered society, movements in art 

 and literature, the menaces and friend- 

 ships of other nations, have but little 

 place in the narrative. The story is one 

 of internal organization, or trade policy, 

 of the occupation of land hitherto almost 

 unpeopled, of the opening up of com- 

 munication and the building of railways 

 and canals, of the working of political in- 

 stitutions, of the disputes of the central 

 government in its relations with the pro- 

 vincial powers. In one sense it is not a 

 dramatic tale : it has little of the cere- 

 monial of Old World movements. But, 

 none the less, it is a profoundly romantic 

 story of the birth of a nation and of its 

 passing from neglected obscurity into a 

 conspicuous place." 



THE BAPTISM OF FIRE 



Today Canada is passing through her 

 baptism of fire. While there are many 

 differences in the history of Canada and 

 that of the United States, there are many 

 resemblances — due, if nothing else, to the 

 common origin of their peoples and to the 

 material problems of settling and devel- 

 oping half a continent. 



In our Civil War our peoples divided 

 on an issue that developed the moral 

 strength of the two great contending sec- 

 tions. Both showed themselves willing to 

 make the ultimate sacrifice of their own 

 lives and the lives of those dear to them 

 and of all their material possessions. In 

 that Civil War the people of the United 

 States found themselves and proved to 

 themselves and to the world their moral 

 fiber and their greatness as a people. 



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