WHAT CAN BE DONE.
THE WILL AND THE WAY. , i. -:A. " Queensland Government' official vouches for the truth, of .facts which furnish > a remarkable instance'of the possibilities of farming (says an Australian exchange .to -hand ■ yest?relay). -They are 1 concerned.'ivith' the- experience of a niaii ' torn. India,--ivho .settled onS'thenDarlin'g Downs, .Queensland, Iks than eighteen months ago.:v;He ; little : of farming that ho paid a man-half-a-brown to show him how to harness a horse. He bad never seen a plough as used by Europeans, and had never attempted to ' inilk a cow, /He .let a contract'for fencing after taking up -.his. lalid,- . and ' then Korked ' with; i-the :(fcntractor -for three weeks for notflfh^'{§ "get* Jiperience. He also spent a few days at the Government Agricultural College. The Department supplied him with books and pamphlets free of charge,-and lie set about establishing'his farir> on' scientific lines. He followed the most approved methods in the water supply, milking sheds, and iairy, and installed, jnlking machines. Df-"course !-'tfie 'old hands .'.-shook-, their li|'ad6j' ,, iis.'thby .jlMys l; dtJV"but they have seen success wait on -his efforts, and are now ' actually''beginning' to follow the Footsteps'of;the new.chum. This is cer- . tainly reversing the order of things. Thi? : ;e.ttler-must have a very receptive mind, jombined with . energy,. determination, ind readiness to leara. ,; Such chiaracteris-.-tics, will I .' carry;-;' their owner through'successfully. .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 8
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221WHAT CAN BE DONE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 8
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