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Title: Wheat Growing in Australia

Author: Australia Department of External Affairs

Release Date: April 5, 2008 [EBook #24994]

Language: English

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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 t