530 Agricultural Journal of Victoria. 



A FEW GOOD CROPS. 



The wheat crops of the past season were, on the whole, so 

 remarkably good that anyone confronted with the task of securing a 

 photograph of the best growing crop in the State, or eyen in any 

 particular district, would soon have found it necessary to abandon the 

 work in despair, or else to make a picture of every second one. The 

 reader must, therefore, not imagine that the illustrations accompanying 

 this are put forward as representatives of the best the State can 

 produce in the way of wheat crops, they are merely intended to 

 convey some idea of what was seen in a day's drive through the 

 Donald district. 



Mr, Thos. Connellan, of Laen, last April, drilled in 87 lbs, of Purple 

 Straw per acre, together with 37 lbs. of Florida superphosphate, and 

 obtained the very satisfactory yield of 34 l)usliels per acre. This 

 crop is seen in Fig. 1, the ears being on a level with an average 

 man's shoulder. 



One of the favorite wheats for stripjjing, since it stands up so 

 well, is Dart's Imperial. Fig. 2 shows a fine crop of this variety 

 grown by Mr. W. A. Morgan, of Witchipool. This was drilled in 

 without manure, and yielded 82^ bushels per acre. 



Mr. H. Adams, of Laen, had an excellent crop of Sullivan's Early, 

 which was put in with a cultivator, without manure, in the middle of 

 May, using 30 lbs. of seed to the acre. The yield was 21 bushels 

 per acre, but it was estimated that at least another 4 bushels was 

 shaken out by storms. (Fig. 3.'> 



The splendid yield of 4 tons per acre of oaten hay was obtained 

 by Messrs. Laidlaw Bros., of Laen. Early in May 40 lbs. of Algerian 

 oats were drilled in with 40 lbs. Florida superphosphate. Fig. 4 

 shows this crop standing in the stooks early in December. 



