SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS.

1.The development of fast railway transport for the conveyance of perishable products, accompanied by night delivery in Perth, to enable such products to reach markets before business opens.

2. The carriage of all cream for factories at gallon rates.

3.The development of the country milk trade by suitable fast trains.

4. The provision of central markets at the Metropolis, with railway communication for the handling of the entire perishables trade under one roof; cold storage accommodation to be an essential feature.

5. The opening up of the country by a systematic policy of drainage.

6. The opening up of the widely distributed lime deposits and the subsidy of undertakings to supply agricultural lime at a price not exceeding 5s per ton on trucks.

7. Encouragement of the immigration of all classes of farmers and farm labour, and particularly of the peasant types of the Old World who are naturally adapted to intensive culture on small holdings.

8. The establishments of a magazine at Bridgetown for the distribution of cheap explosives.

9. The definite reservation of the State's Timber areas to release the land available for agricultural selection.

10. The State's Tree Pulling plants to be permanently located at such places as Bridgetown, Donnybrook, Brunswick and Denmark.

11. Assistance to the establishment of distilleries, canning plants and evaporators in the fruit-growing districts.

12. Continuous effort by the Department of Agriculture in—

(a) Research work to combat the diseases and pests incidental to intensive culture; to indicate the lines along which second grade fruits can be turned to account. (b) To discover fresh outside markets for the expanding production. (c) To keep in touch with the systems employed in promoting intensive culture in other parts of the work and to circulate the information gained among our growers. (d) The promotion of a system of direct inspection and direction of the principal industries by the visits of trained officers to the farmers themselves. (e) The establishment of the two State Farms as dairy farms, breeding each pure herds for the distribution of pure stock.

13. The alteration of the regulations governing seed potatoes in the direction of facilitating the exchange of new seed under proper supervision.

14. Pure seed legislation to ensure that no seed shall be offered for sale which has not, on a clearly indicated date, passed a standard test for germination and purity.

15. The adoption of amended legislation for the sale of Re-purchased Estates upon terms recommended in our report on the Grain-Growing Areas.

16. Reconstruction of the Harvey Irrigation Scheme and the various drainage schemes, to place these systems upon a sound practical working basis.

17. The settlers on the Seven-mile Swamp at Grassmere to be offered other land in substitution for their blocks.

18. Subsidy of the manufacture of drain pipes at Albany for the assistance of settlers who are now unable to obtain pipes.

19. Treatment of the poison lands question by an Appeal Board, sitting in affected districts, with local representation on the Board.

20. In the layout of future selections, only the good land, in whatever shape to be surveyed before selection. Surrounding areas of poor country to be available to selectors on Perpetual Lease terms.

21. The development of irrigation under suitable conditions under the direction of the Irrigation Department.