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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1135, 2 October 1871, Page 2

Ten thousand persons are engaged in squatting interests in Queensland, or' 16 J per cent, of the total population. Speaking of the last harvest in South Australia, the Register says:—«So <?ood was 1 he past harvest, that instances are known where farmers then obtained sufficient wheat off their lands to pay for the purchase of the freehold. Surprise at this need not be great when it is considered that for many years sheep have been running over the ground, and not only enriched it, but prevented weeds from seeding, and thus, when the land was cultivated, nothing but what was sown grew. Many people who are this year putting seed into say 200 acres and more, purpose, as a step in the right'direction, having plenty of land, and after cropping three successive seasons, plant in that portion of the farm some kind of pasture for a few years, and feed sheep there, whilst other portions, of their, holdings are also undergoing a similar process of rotation."