a chain. the chain I left was deficient by seven bushels to the acre. I consider it necessary to use super in the amount stated, and I have proved this to be correct. I consider the carring capacity all the year round of cultivated land about a sheep to the acre. I have done a little more than that, but I injured the country in doing it. The land must be cultivated every second year in order to carry this number of sheep. I am quite satisfied with my prospect here, and I do not think it warrants a butter factory yet, but there is nothing to prevent it being a butter-producing district. I have a cow at home now making 11lbs of butter per week, a jersey. She gets a little bran night and morning. I gave £24 for her. for growing summer fodder you can't beat this district. I sow oats and rape, a good crop for both sheep and cows.

9280a. To Mr PAYNTER: Farmers are handy-capped in this district by the absence of a mill for grinding their wheat and in order that they may obtain the official. whole grain does not pay to feed to pigs. A man with, say, 300 to 500 acres of land, would not be able to go in for aside lines in the matter of  finance I consider that almost every farmer in this district could go in for cows. Then there would be a prospect of a butter factory being a success in the district. ( The witness retired.) ANDREW MATHER, farmer, Gnowangerup, Sworn and examined: 

9181. To Mr PAYNTER: I have been nine years in the district. I had a little experience in the eastern states. I was brought up on a farm in Victoria and subsequently went on to a wheat farm. I have 1,600 acres, 1,220 of it first class, the balance second class poison country. For the first class I am paying 10s., and on the poor land, which is between the first class land, I pay 16s, per acres. This carries narrow-leaf and box poison. I pay 8s, for the second class. I have 1,000 acres cleared and the whole of the property is fenced and subdivided into ten paddocks. My water supply is from four dams, three of 600 yards, and one of 400 yards. they are seven and eight feet deep. this is a permanent supply. I am a married man with two children, and am six miles from the town. I have only a rough house, but I was burnt out last year. I am building a good house. I have built stables with straw roof. I have a full set of implements, 12 working horses, and six others coming in; 500 sheep, eight pigs, eight cows. I deal with the National Bank, My liability is now a shade over £1,000. I was offered £2 an acre fro my farm two days ago. I have 350 acres in crop; 200 acres of this is fallow, in the spring scarify it and run my sheep on it, and in March I skim plough it, and after the first rains scarify it again. On the good ground I use from 40lbs to 45lbs. of super,. and on the use of super. I experiment in one paddock, leaving a chain wide without any manure. there is not so much Grass on this chain strip, and I got two bushels less from it. The most successful varieties of wheat are Lotts and Federation. I got good returns from King wheat at one time, But it has been no good since. I have also tried Walker's. My average yield for five years, Excluding the drought year was 12 bushels. The highest I have had since I have been farming was 25 bushels over 200 acres. this was in 1910. At 3s. 6d. a bushel nine bushels will pay all expenses in normal times and give me something for my labour; now it will take ten bushels. I use eight horses and a five-furrow mould-plough and can do 40 acres a week. I consider we are too scattered for bulk handling yet. I think a man should have 1,000 acres to make a good living, with good mixed country, say, 500 to 600 acres, first class. I consider 250 acres a good years work for man without other work to do. The land laws are good for the good land, nut on the poison country should be low, and rent should not be required for the first five years. Five shillings is as high as should be charges for poison country. We are paying for some 8s It takes at leats two years to get rid of the poison.

9282. To Mr. VENN: I run 500 sheep and consider the carrying capacity of cleared country in this district after cultivation in a sheep to the acre all the year round. I believe it fertilising my land, although it is not required for some years on the good land. My cows are hand fed, besides pasture. they are not, however, particularly good cows. I am five miles from the railway station, and am well satisfied with my prospect and the district. I was at Lake Cowcowing to commence with, but I Cleared out. I was the first settler there. I should very much like to see a bacon factory started here or in Tambellup. The freight is too much to send pigs to Perth. In dairying, I consider it is rather too soon to start a factory here yet. It will certainly be good district for dairying later on. ( The witness retired.) PATRICK CORBETT, farmer, Telyarup, Via Broomehill, Sworn and examined:

9283. To Mr VENN: I have been six years in this district, and while I ahd no previous farming experience I was amongst stock in the North-west before coming here. I consider the carrying capacity of cleared land in this districts a sheep to two acres all the year round. I would not like to take the risk for carring one sheep to the acre. Farmers in this district are doing well. So far as dairying is consider with ensilage dairying could be carried on here. As for pigs, I have been very successful with them. I consider a bacon Factory would do well here. My brother has imported some very fine pigs from England, and I have twenty from this stock now on order not yet born at four guiness each. I graze my pigs and feed them on wheat. Those people at Ongerup with poison country should have gone in for pigs. Pigs are not affected by the poison plants, and those people out there had three to four bushels crops that they could not strip, but which would have been profitable had they had pigs. There is certainly something to be found out about the trouble in growing wheat at Ongerup.