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like Australia it may be found difficult to make provision which will ensure 

 against losses in isolated places in our interior, but by niakinf^ the most of 

 our rivers and artesian watei- supply, not only can we save the most of our 

 stock during dry years, but fruit-growing, dairying, pig and lamb raising 

 may be carried on successfullv, ])lacing us in a position to defy the (h-ouglit, 

 and the i-esult would be tliat wide tracts of what at pi-esent may be classed 

 as almost desert land may be turned into a pfoductive farming country, on. 

 which hundreds of thousands of people will yet make their homes, on areas- 

 of from 10 to 100 aci'es of land. 



Showing the countiy belore clearing. 



The starting of the Great Northern Muriumbidgee Irrigation Scheme is- 

 one which, when completed, will provide sufficient water to ii-rigate large 

 tracts of land lying between Narrandera and Gunbar, and should prove an 

 untold blessing to the whole of this southern country ; and the Government, 

 by initiating this irrigation farm at the present time, will be in a position to- 

 supply considerable valuable information to intenditig settlers in the near 

 future, or when the Barien .lack dam and the channels will he so far 

 completed, as to be able to supply water for lands under this scheme. 



The place will be an object lesson as to what will grow on this particular 

 soil. A good assortmeiit of gi'ape-vines, fruit and nut trees, have been 

 planted. Hay and fodder crops have been sown, and the Department is 

 desirous of showing what can be grown on this land, which is classed as 

 second quality, there being large tracts of the better soil lower down the 

 canal, but where it would be difficult at present to obtain watei*. 



The present site has the advantage of being easily seen from the train, 

 which in itself is a great advantage, as the public have a good view of the- 



