. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 313 and distributed to good advantage. Cattle can range ten miles and sheep about five miles from their water supply, and after rains, when herbage is juicy, cattle may range even to fifteen miles. Wells then act as centres, and sometimes may save fencing—an important consideration in a country liable to bush-fires. Rabbits and dingoes must be systematically and uniformly attacked; stock routes with permanent wells opened up. The land must be scientifically parcelled and put out on permanent lease, and improvement of leased lands and adequate stocking must be st
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 313 and distributed to good advantage. Cattle can range ten miles and sheep about five miles from their water supply, and after rains, when herbage is juicy, cattle may range even to fifteen miles. Wells then act as centres, and sometimes may save fencing—an important consideration in a country liable to bush-fires. Rabbits and dingoes must be systematically and uniformly attacked; stock routes with permanent wells opened up. The land must be scientifically parcelled and put out on permanent lease, and improvement of leased lands and adequate stocking must be stipulated in return for Government aid in well-sinking, etc. The carrying capacity and suitability of various lands for various animals—horses, cattle, sheep, goats, Angora goats—must be tested. All this will stabilise the pastoral industry and probably quadruple its output—an enormous gain over such a wide area. Western Queensland and then curve westwards towards Darwin. This would undoubtedly open up much better and more pastoral country, and would probably be cheaper. Under this scheme the Oodnadatta line would also be continued to Alice Springs, thus tapping west Central Australia by a branch route. This much seems certain : the fine pastoral areas of the north-eastern portion of South Australia and Western Queensland will have to be opened up and linked somehow with the north to south railway system, because the economic drainage of the whole of Central Australia is eventually bound to follow the main lines of geographical configuration. That is to say, two systems, one from the north-east and one from the north-west, will unite somewhere south of Lake Eyre and, forming a " Y," will flow south to Port Augusta, which is capable of becoming a first-class. £000 WORTH OF TIN COMING INTO iL^RBLE EAR FROil WOOI,, (By courU'sy of the High Commissioner of Australia.) But all this depends on better railway communica- tions. At present th
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