As an engineering surveyor, I have always approached farm development work from the point of view of a surveyor primarily, although very soon in any given job other ramifications intrude. However, the survey work is so essential and so basic at all times that I look upon it as the most important factor. As work proceeds, I am involved in timber classification, estimates for bulldozing, windrowing, burning, picking up, levelling, ploughing, dam-sinking, fencing, and a dozen other operations relating to the early development work on farmland.