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Show SHARE FARMING IN AUSTRALIA Plan That Seems Worth Copying la Especially Successful With Big Wheat Crops. In view of the fact that the estimate of the present season's wheat crop of New South Wales is set down at nearly near-ly forty-two million bushels, exceeding last season's record by nearly nine and one-half million bushels, it is proof of the value of the share farming that a ' considerable number of the wheat farms of New South Wales, and particularly par-ticularly the large ones, are worked on what is known in Australia as the "shares" system. Under this system a farmer possessing possess-ing the necessary team and implement arranges with the land owner to crop a certain area for a season or for a number of seasons. The usual form of agreement provides that the land owner shall provide land, seed, two-thirds two-thirds of the manure, where manure is used, and bags for his share. The farmer does the cultivating and harvesting, har-vesting, using his own plant; provides one-third of the manure, and bags for his share. Up to a specified yield of the crop the owner and farmer take equal shares; any excess becomes the property prop-erty of the farmer as a bonus to encourage en-courage good and thorough farming. This method of working large areas is invariably a success where the arrangement ar-rangement is drawn up on a truly cooperative co-operative basis, and is one of the most satisfactory ways of working large estates. es-tates. Share farming enables a settler with little mony at his disposal to accumulate ac-cumulate enough means to buy land of his own. |