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Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 



{July 2, 1920. 



Under Irrigation with Bore Water. 



W. R. COLWELL.* 



Excellent returns were obtained from Sudan grass at Coonamble Experiment 

 Farm last season with the assistance of irrigation from bore water. 



An area of 30 acres, which two years before had carried a heavy crop of 

 broadcast maize and then a crop of wheat that failed, was disced, and then 



Sudan Grass at Coonamble Experiment Farm. 



A Heavy Crop being cut (or Silago at Coonamble. 



sown in September, 1919, with Sudan grass at the rate of 8 1b. per acre. 

 About. 75 per cent, of the seed germinated, and the gi'owth being good, the 

 area was divided into eight hlocks and irrigated by flooding. 



♦Late Manager, Coonamble Experiment Farm. 



