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Joiirnal of Agriculture. 



[8 August, 1907. 



A, Parish of Tongala — was reserved from applicants and transferred to the 

 Minister of Agriculture bv the Lands Purchase Board. The total value was 

 set down at ;^3,79o, a little over ^^7 per acre including improvements; 

 these were valued at ^1,000, giving an unimproved value of ^5 3s. per 

 acre. Operations on the farm are directed bv the Engineer for Agri- 

 culture under the supervision of an Advisorv Board consisting of Dr. 

 Cherry, Director of Agriculture (Chairman), and Messrs. G. Pagan, 

 irrigationist and farmer, Ardmona, and W. Orr, grazier and farmer, 

 Shepparton. The direct management of the farm is in the hands of 

 Mr. G. H. Tolley, formerly manager of the Mildura Irrigation Companv. 

 an expesrienced and practical horticulturist, and a well trained engineer 

 and surveyor, who was for many years engaged in the actual laving out of 

 many of our larger irrigation and water storage Avorks. Besides managing 

 the farm itself, his services are available for settlers in lavinij out their 



CLEARING OPERATIONS. 

 Pulling down trees with the engine. 



land for irrigation distribution and for general advice. It will be ad- 

 mitted that the representation of local interests and experience on the 

 management by the appointment of two of the most successful farmers 

 on the Goulburn is a step in the right direction and one that should be 

 repeated in connexion with future establishments. 



The objects of the farm are, as previouslv stated, mainlv to show the 

 profits to be made by working small areas under irrigation. It was at 

 once recognised that the groAving of foodstuffs for man, mainly fruit, 

 had already been proved at Mildura, Rodnev, and elsewhere to an 

 extent that left little room for improvement. Besides, the problem was 

 the working of small farms and the farmer is rarely a success as an 

 orchardist, the two avocations not being, as a rule, easilv worked in 

 conjunction. There remained then the growing of fodder for consump 



