The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . minimum of labourand expense he has hitherto been able to make a livelihood. He pays no heed to Iota-tion of crops. If a bit of ground grows wheat this year he will make it grow wheatnext year, and try to make it do so the next again, until the virgin richness of thesoil is exhausted, and it yields no longer. Then, when it is all but too late, he willendeavour to return, in the shape of expensive manures, what lie has so prodigally extractedfrom it. Fallow is a
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . minimum of labourand expense he has hitherto been able to make a livelihood. He pays no heed to Iota-tion of crops. If a bit of ground grows wheat this year he will make it grow wheatnext year, and try to make it do so the next again, until the virgin richness of thesoil is exhausted, and it yields no longer. Then, when it is all but too late, he willendeavour to return, in the shape of expensive manures, what lie has so prodigally extractedfrom it. Fallow is a word not found in the cockatoos vocabulary, and the idea ofmaking home manure is about as strange to him as are many other canons of old countrjhusbandry formulated by those who are older and wiser than he. He finds it easier to bni-nthe stubble from his fields than to collect the straw: and, for that reason he does so. Heis never weary of boasting how far he is ahead of the British farmer in labour-savingappliances; and so proud, indeed, are the authorities of the reaping machine in use that SOUTH AUSTRALIA: AGEICULTURE. ;J01. THE L\RE BIRD OF AUSTRALIA (Jfeiuirtt -liperto) AXD COCKATOOS. Ihey figure it in the official memorandum annually issued for the use of instrumentj devised to gather the wheat crop with as little labour as possible, 202 THE COUXTKIES OF THE WORLD. known as a strippor. It is lined with slicet iron, and lias a row of iron fingers so sliaiiecEand fittctl as to catch the wheat immediately under the ear, and so, by the forward motion ofthe machine, drawn generally by three hoi-ses abreast, the ear is stripped from the strawand drawn into the machine, where a drum with beaters await it, and threshes the grainfrom the ear, throwing it all together to tlie back part of the apparatus. So after themachine has gone round the tield it returns to tlie corner whence it started, and folding-doors being opened behind, it discharges its cargo of wh
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