31, 32, 43
Land, Price of 26, 33, 43
Monetary Aid to Settlers 25
New South Wales 26-27
Pig Raising 14
Poultry Farming 20
Profit per Cow 33, 40
Queensland 31-36
Seasons 7
South Australia 37-40
Share System of Dairying 22
Size of Average Herd 34
State Supervision 12
Stock, Price of 33
Tasmania 44-48
Victoria 27-31
Western Australia 40-44
Winter Feed 35
Information Concerning AUSTRALIA
may be obtained on application to--
IN AMERICA:
AUSTRALIAN PAVILION,
PANAMA PACIFIC EXHIBITION.
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, London, S.W.
IN AUSTRALIA:
THE SECRETARY,
DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS,
Collins and Spring Streets, Melbourne.
The suitability of Australia as a country for the dairyman is referred
to in the report of the Scottish Agricultural Commission,[A] who toured
the States of the Commonwealth in 1910-11, in the following terms:--
[Illustration: An up-to-date Milking Yard.]
"The practice of dairying, in a limited domestic sense, as applied
to the milking of a few cows and the making of a little butter and
cheese for family use, is as old as the history of mankind, and in
that restricted meaning dairying has been carried on in Australia
since the arrival of the first settlers. But the industry as
existing there to-day is a vastly different matter, being already
of great importance, and promising rapid and extensive development.
It is a young industry, so recently out of its infancy that if this
report had been written fifteen years ago the section on
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