People in Australian cities live in very much the same way that people live in cities of the United States and Europe. Nearly half live in cities, and the cities are very modern.
People in Australian cities live in very much the same way that people live in cities of the United States and Europe. Nearly half live in cities, and the cities are very modern. Manufacturing and industry are well developed, and Australian firms make electrical appliances, automobiles, locomotives, and many kinds of machinery, both for use at home, and for export. Outside of the cities there are many huge farms, which the Australians call "stations," where grain and other crops, sheep, hogs and cattle are raised.
The Australian sheep industry is the most important in the country. Australia supplies nearly a third of all the wool used in the world, and more than 300,000 tons of lamb and mutton a year. Wheat is the biggest agricultural crop. Fruit raising also became important when farmers found that transplanted fruit trees would grow well in Australian soil. Now they have big canning factories, and Australian canned fruits, and vegetables as well, can be found in every part of the world.
Spiders In The Garden
Watching for their prey in the centre of a radiating geometrical snare, we often find the garden spiders. The beauty of their vertical orb-webs and the large size of these strikingly marked creatures always attract our attention during summer strolls.
Jack & Jill The Vulture Twins
Probably this story of Jack and Jill, the Vulture Twins, would never have been written, if Betsy, Farmer Parsons' old brindle cow, had not refused to come up from the woods one night. But she wouldn't come, so Farmer Parsons had to go down after her.
At Home With Mr. Burroughs
Youth still peered out at me in spite of his crowning thatch of silvery hair when I first met John Burroughs in 1904. As we walked together on our way to his rustic little house in the woods called "Slab-sides,"
