Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Laying Out A Homestead.
Independently altogether of the style of architecture adopted, says the “Sydney Morning Herald,” a great deal of skill may be exercised in laying out a new country homestead. When the settler makes a start in the country for the first time, he frequently commits great blunders for which he is sorry afterwards, but takes good care not to repeat them should he happen to move to a new selection a second or even a third time.
The way in which a man arranges his buildings and fences is generally a good or bad omen of his future success and prosperity. If you see a selector commence operations on a new building by planting a shed here, another there, and the next anywhere, depend upon it he is lacking in the qualities which go to make a successful farmer.
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