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an acre for it. I heard the Classification Board was going to reduce it, but I have not applied to them myself. We are growing wheat at the present time and have to come back empty when we should be returning with manure. I ordered it months ago to be here by the 1st February and have had no word of it yet. (The witness retired.) ———————— JOSEPH HEDGES, Farmer, East Narrogin, sworn and examined: 8311. By the CHAIRMAN: How long have you been in this district?— I came here in 1910 but had no previous experience of farming. I hold 740 acres three miles from the railway, 200 acres first class, and the whole is fenced with sheep-proof fence; 292 acres are cleared. I have one 580-yard dam, and am carting water. I am a married man with six children, five boys and one girl, four of whom attend school. I was burnt out five years ago and have never been able to build another house. My personal habitation is hessian. I have a set of implements, five working horses, two cows and a calf. I had £15 capital when I started. I owe the Agricultural Bank £525, the Industries Assistance Board and other creditors £500. I have 250 acres of crop averaging nine bushels. I could make a complete success of it if I had sheep. I had them before but I sold them and then I could not get any afterwards. I did very well indeed out of them. Dalgety, through my being on the board, will not now grant sheep. I had 120 ewes and got 100 per cent. lambs. What I want is stock. I have to feed my horses with long hay as I have not an engine for chaffcutting. (The witness retired.) ———————— J.M. McDOUGALL (McDougall & Son), Farmer, Myrtle Dale, East Narrogin, sworn and examined: 8312. By the CHAIRMAN: How long have you been in the district?— Since 1914. I bought the property second-hand. I came from Oorooroo, South Australia. My son and the family hold 3,500 acres in all, of which 3,000 acres are fenced and 1,700 acres cleared. So far I have had a poor success as I have not average seven bushels. I had "Take-all" badly last year. I only have a little of it this year. The heads are white half way down. I do not know whether this is due to the heat or the frost. I had a crop last year which looked like 40 bushels but they were dummy heads. I have sown nothing but fallow. I have more sheep than I am able to carry, namely 800, and I have to buy feed for them. I would not think of going on without sheep under any circumstances. (The witness retired.) ———————— EDWARD FARR, 92 Gate, East Wogerlin, sworn and examined: 8313. By the CHAIRMAN: How long have you been in this district?—Since 1908, but I have been on farm all my life in New South Wales. I hold 1,120 acres, three miles from the railway, all of which is ring-fenced and subdivided into two paddocks, and 300 acres cleared. There are three 500 cubic yard dams. We are now carting from the Government dam. I am a married man with eight children, two of whom attend school. My house is wood and iron. I have bush stables and shed, a set of implements, nine working horses, two cows and two heifers. I had no capital when I started and borrowed £160 from the Agricultural Bank. I owe the Industries Assistance Board and other creditors £622. I have 245 acres of crop going 11½ bushels. What I want is to have more clearing done. I like the land as long as I can get the crop in early enough, but what I want more than anything else is sheep. (The witness retired.) ———————— HENRY DICKINSON GRAY, Springhurst, Wagin East, sworn and examined: 8314. By the CHAIRMAN: How long have you been in this district?— I came here in 1909. I had no previous experience. I was a storekeeper. I hold 1,700 acres eight miles from the railway. I have 10 miles of fencing around 1,500 acres, and it is part sheep-proof; 750 acres are cleared. I have a permanent water supply and a dam 10ft. deep of 1,300 yards capacity. I am a married man with six children all of whom attend school. I have a four-roomed iron house, a nine-stall stable, but no sheds, a set of implements, 14 working horses, three cows, 150 sheep. I have 400 acres of crop going 12 bushels and have had an average of 10 bushels for the last five years. I had £1,200 capital when I started and have an overdraft on the Bank of New South Wales of £1,300. Eventually I shall make a success of it but not out of wheat growing alone. My bank will give me money to fence now even at the present high prices. I have a neighbour who holds 2,500 acres and goes in with me in sheep. When we get mixed farming developed I shall have a big chance. I have not increased my overdraft for five years and have just held my own. I have done all my own work. It was through sheep that I improved my yield. I put two paddocks in. They were the same class of country. I kept one of them clean with sheep and never touched it, and the other had no sheep on it, but the one beat the other by five bushels to the acre. (The witness retired.) ———————— JOSEPH HENRY BAKER, Farmer, Harrismith, sworn and examined: 8315. By the CHAIRMAN: How long have you in the district?— I came her in 1909. I hold 674 acres and have been a farmer all my life. I have four miles cartage to the railway. There are 450 acres fenced and subdivided into four sheep-proof paddocks; 260 acres are cleared. I am a married man with two children under school age. I have a hessian house and a bush shed, a set of implements, four working horses and three young ones. I had no capital when I started; I owe £750 to the Agricultural Bank, the Industries Assistance Board and other creditors. I have 200 acres going 9¾ bushels and I think I can make a success of farming if I can only get enough land cleared. (The witness retired.)
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