Australia, The Dairy Country

Australia: The Dairy Country is credited to the Department of External Affairs, Melbourne. The opening statement says dairy farmers are specially invited and assisted to come to Australia because it is considered that, in a progressive young country with so much territory adapted for dairying, such settlers will advance the interest of the country and of themselves. The text says that until within comparatively recent years there was little dairying anywhere in the Commonwealth, and that modern developments, the spread of scientific knowledge, the fostering care of Government, and, above everything, the advent of the separator, of the milking machine, and of the freezer have changed all that.

The text says that, broadly speaking, a settler may obtain on the security of his land or of his improvements sums ranging from $120.00 to $9600.00 at rates of interest varying from 4 per cent. to 6 per cent. The text says that in the coastal districts of New South Wales and throughout a vast extent of the northern and central tableland districts dairy farming is a profitable and constantly-expanding industry.