THG JOURNAI9 



OF 



Tfie ©epartmenf of Agriculture. 



Vol. V. Part 8. 



8th Aug>ust, 1907. 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. libp/ 



The Work at ^Vyuiia. 



BOTAf 



.4. 5. Kciiyon, C.E., Engineer for Agriculture. QAIte 



In 1905, the Lands Purchase and Management Board jjiirchased the 

 Wyuna Estate from Messrs. Finlay Bros. Its area is, in round figures, 

 22,500 acres, and it includes almost every variety of soil tvpical of the 

 Goulburn Vallev. The best land, amountiniT to about one-half, is timljered 



THE HOMESTEAD. 



::rwith box with occasional sandy ridges growing Murray pines. The plain 

 , land IS of the usual character,' a fine but shallow surface soil of a sandv 

 -~f,nafure, a sub-surface soil to about eighteen inches below the surface and a 

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