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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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A SEW ZEALAND PEST. 278 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. and a half acres, while there were five and a half million acres undergrasses, including grass-sown land that had not been previously ploughed.The fig-ures were about evenlv divided between the two islands. Thecolony contains about fourteen million sheep, seven hundred thousandcattle, and one hundred and sixty thousand horses. Of late years the export of wheat has fallen off, owing to the com-petition of India and America in the markets of Europe; the wheat-farms of New Zealand are so unprofitable that the owners talk of put-ting much of their ground into grass, though they will continue thecultivation in order to supply enough for home consumption and toemploy the machinery they have on hand.
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A STEAM THRESHING MACHIXE The open country of South Island is admi^rably adapted for wheat,and the soil is so easy to manipulate that double-furrow ploughs areused. The large farms are provided with all the latest improvementsin machinery and implements; and we found the intelligent farmersthoroughly familiar with American reapers and mowers, steam thresh-ing-machines, steam wagons, and other things, so that we felt quite at WHEAT-FARMS AND DAIRY-FARMS. 279 home. They asked us about the wheat-farms of America, and wereinchned to shake their heads when we told them of fiekls so large thata plough could only turn a single fmTow around one of them in a daystime, Do you really mean it V said one of them, with an emphasis ofsurprise. Doctor Bronson assured them of the correctness of the statement,and added that on the Dalrymple farm in Dakota, or rather on one ofthe Dalrymple farms, there was a single field of thirteen thousand acres. That makes, said he, about twenty square miles, and I d

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