35. Have you any wheat on the place?— I have 135 bags clean and good. This is what I have left after feeding my pigs. 36. Have you any crop this year?— Unfortunately no, owing to the war, and to my two sons having gone to fight. I find that the labour here is no good. The land of course is going backwards because it is not cultivated. 37. Have you any stock?— I have had all kinds of stock, sheep, pigs, cattle, horses, poultry, etc. 38. How many sheep do you keep?— I had 450 there at one time, but I reduced them to 100. I sold them all just before I left. 39. By Mr. McDonald: How long did you have them on the place?— They were not all on my own place, because it would not carry them, though I had a small number there. I was able to run them on the land round about where there was good feed. The war worried me to such an extent that I had to sell them all. 40. By Mr. PADBURY:— Did they keep in good condition?— Yes, I had lambs equal to anything I ever had in South Australia. I was a butcher in that State for 20 years. Some of the lambs that we bred on the place scaled 46 pounds. 41. By the CHAIRMAN: Did you feed your pigs on wheat?— Yes, and on hay, and they also picked up food for themselves. I had a lot of pigs running loose. They did well. 42. What sort of water supply did you have on your place?— I have a dam. The supply is good now. The supply is permanent so long as the dam holds, which it does well. It is 30 feet by 15 feet and in nine feet deep. Since I put it down I have never been short of water. 43. By Mr. PADBURY: Does it get full every year?— It overflows. Last year it did so to the extent of fully six inches. 44. By the CHAIRMAN: Are you satisfied that there is sufficient rain down there to grow wheat?— My 13 years' experience down there teaches me that I should be quite satisfied. 45. Can you give us some idea as to what the rainfall is?— I have not kept a record. The rain has, however, been sufficient for me to grow very good crops every year. the only failure I have had was through getting bad seed from Gardner Bros., in Perth. When it came it was rotten. It was almost too late to sow when I got it. That was not a complete failure, though the crop was not nearly as good as if the wheat had been clean and solid. 46. Where did you sell your sheep?— I sold them to Mr. Gilmore, who sold them to Mr. Crossland, the butcher in Norseman, and made I think 12s. a head on them. I got 23s. a head myself. With some of these sheep I got four clips as well as four lambs, and I got 10s. more for them than I gave for them. I sold £ 70 worth of pigs this time last year, just before I broke up the home. If I had been able to hold on to them I should have been able to double my money. 47. Have you any assistance from the Agricultural Department?— I have had some slight assistance but not all that was promised to me. I think I have had £300 from them. 48. Is that your only liability?— No. I owe the Industries Assistance Board for seed wheat that I got from Carral, and super. that I got from Wills & Co. 49. Where have you always sold your produce?— My market was Norseman, and it was a good market until the Wilson Government dumped down the Coolgardie-Norseman railway and robbed me of my market. The only thing that came down as a result of the railway was the carriage on chaff. The carriage on tea, sugar, soap, tobacco, etc., was the same as it was in the times of the camel teams. After putting me on the land they cut down the price on chaff. I was making a good living off my land when they did that. 50. Are you satisfied that your district will grow wheat?— Yes. 51. Do you recommend any particular kinds of wheat for the district?— One kind is better than another. It largely depends on the soil, which varies on the different blocks. Some men are doing better with one kind of wheat than I am. The wheat I recommend are Carral's No.5, which gave me a good yield last year, and Steinweidel, and Purple Straw, though it is hard to get the last named. Skinless barley also does extremely well there and I have had two crops of it. 52. Have you grown any oats at all?— Algerian oats do well. I have grown them as tall as I am. My hay consists of Algerian oats, wheat, skinless barley. 53. How do you work your land?— Up to within a few years ago I had to scratch in the seed. During the last years I have fallowed and given the land a good trial, though not as good as I should like to have done. Fallow is what is required there. 54. Have you been able to get sufficient super for your requirements?— I did not use super. for seven years on that land: it was not required. I had potash enough in the land without putting on super. By putting on super. I actually injured my land, though I only put 40 pounds to the acre. I find that is almost too much for the land where I had heavy timber. Where heavy fires have been there is enough super. and potash left in the ash for the soil. 55. What quantity of wheat did you sow to the acre?— Up to 45 pounds, which I think is ample for new ground. With oats one would sow a little more. 56. Have you grown any root crops?— No, though they will grow well there. 57. Have you kept a vegetable garden?— Yes, I have grown more vegetables than we could consume, on a very small piece of land. 58. Have you done any new clearing?— Not since my two boys went to the war. They left me two years ago. One of my boys was killed in France the other day. It has handicapped me very much being without them, and now one of them has been killed. 59. What ploughs do you use?— I have two ploughs. One is a three-furrow stump-jump plough made by Tucker Bros., of Southern Yorke's Peninsula, farmers. The I have a methalytic clock spring plough of eight furrows. It was made by Miller Bros of South Australia. 60. By Mr. PADBURY: what sort of a plough is that?— It has to be wound up something after the fashion of a clock. It has a big spring and according to to the land so I this wound up. If the land is not too hard it must not be wound up too tightly, but the harder the ground is the harder must the spring be wound up. It is also made up so as to lift when it strikes anything. It is really three imple-