Produced by Nick Wall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. WHEAT GROWING IN AUSTRALIA. ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 1915. By authority: McCARRON, BIRD & CO., PRINTERS, 479 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE. Information Concerning AUSTRALIA may be obtained on application to-- IN AMERICA: THE AUSTRALIAN PAVILION, PANAMA PACIFIC EXHIBITION, SAN FRANCISCO. NIEL NIELSEN, Esq., Trade and Immigration Commissioner for New South Wales, 419 Market Street, San Francisco. F. T. A. FRICKE, Esq., Land and Immigration Agent for Victoria, 687 Market Street, San Francisco. IN LONDON: The High Commissioner for THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, 72 Victoria Street, Westminster. IN AUSTRALIA: The Secretary DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, Collins and Spring Streets, Melbourne. CONTENTS. Introduction 5 Australian Wheat Area 12 Factors Governing Wheatgrowing 18 Securing a Wheat Farm 22 Working Plant Required 23 Working the Wheat Farm 26 Cost of Production 34 Share Farming 38 How the Settler is Assisted 43 Social Life in Australia 49 WHEATGROWING IN AUSTRALIA. With the growing scarcity of foodstuffs that has become a world-wide feature of the last few years, the wheatgrower is one of the most important necessities in civilisation. He has prospered in the past, but the future holds still greater and richer prospects. And in no country in the world are those prospects brighter than in the Commonwealth of Australia. The world's surface is gradually filling up, and most of the older countries have reached sight of the limit of cultivation, so the world's millions have to look to newer lands to provide them with food. The great island continent in the southern seas possesses a vast area of proven wheat land, as yet untouched by the plough. It lies dormant, fertile, and responsive, awaiting the union of labour and land to yield abundance of food. [Illustration: BREAKING UP NEW GROUND.]