pastoral districts. Of these agricultural districts, the two former possess the advantage of a steam communi cation with Sydney, enabling the settlers to send their produce thither with regularity and economy, and to re tain a remunerating price in their own neighbourhood. The price of fresh butter in Sydney is never less than half-a-crown per pound, and is very often as high as three shillings and sixpence. The profits of dairy farming, and also the comforts of a family, may be increased in a considerable degree by the rearing of pigs and poultry, and by keeping one or two brood mares on the establishment. The Holm Bush dairy, on the Paramatta road, eight miles from Sydney, produced a clear income of two thousand pounds a-year from the milking of one hundred cows. On this esta blishment neither butter nor cheese was made. Dairy farming in New South Wales and Port Phillip where so many new townships are forming, offers on the whole a very safe and advantageous mode of employing small capitals; but what renders it particularly deserving of notice is, the facility which it offers to industrious people of the working classes, for turning to excellent account the money which two or three years of industry and prudence will enable them to accumulate. From the results that have lately attended the appli cation of scientific truths to practical agriculture, it seems manifest that the productive capabilities of the soil in Australia have been generally underrated. In the year 1839, Dr. Wilson, of Braidwood, raised on his own farm, in the neighbourhood of Ilawarra, a crop of wheat afford ing eighty bushels to the acre. This was an instance