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plant may form heads witlioiit grain. That stage of the disease was 

 called " Avhiteheads." Both '' takeall " and " whiteheads " were phases 

 of the one disease. The only cure was a good system of rotation, and 

 using oats in the rotation. Oats are immune from attack, but barley 

 grass and certain natives harbor the disease. The best cure for takeall 

 land was: — (1) Burning the stubble of the affected crop. (2) Fallow- 

 ing the land, and keeping the fallows clean from native grasses which 

 harbored the pest. (2) Sowing an immune crop like oats. (4) Follow 

 the oats with a bare fallow preparatory to sowing wheat. 



SPEECHES. 



An adjournment was made to the College buildings, where, in the 

 main class-room, afternoon tea was served. The crowd filled the large 

 room. Mr. P. Learmonth, president of the Horsham Agricultural 

 Society, rose, and after honouring the toast of " The King," proposed 

 a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Richardson for the very instructive 

 demonstration to which they had been treated. He said that more and 

 more the farmers of the district were learning to value the experimental 

 work done here and elsewhere in their interest, and to-day many were 

 putting into practice the lessons that they learned, and were already 

 reaping substantial monetary benefit by so doing. He was sure that 

 many instructive lessons had been learned that afternoon, both by the 

 farmers and by others interested in farming, which showed them that 

 still greater wealth could be won from this wonderful fertile Wimmera. 

 The society which he had the honour to represent were endeavouring 

 by every means in their power to foster the spread of advanced 

 methods among the farmers in this district, and that their efforts 

 were already bearing fruit was shown by the active interest that 

 was being taken in the carrying out of the new selection competition, 

 for which there were ten competitors. The suggestion out of 

 which that competition sprang was thrown out at a similar gathering 

 a couple of years previously by Mr. Richardson. These things took 

 time and trouble, but they were worth it. He had much pleasure in 

 moving a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Richardson, and hoped that that 

 gentleman would visit them on many a similar occasion in the 

 future. (Applause.) 



Mr. Richardson, rising to respond, said that he thanked Mr. Lear- 

 month and those present for the very hearty vote of thanks accorded 

 him, but afiirmed that his part in the proceedings was light compared 

 with that of the quiet, steady effort of the staff of the College, which 

 had really loaded the gun that he had fired. To Mr. Drevermann, 

 Mr. Munro, and Mr. McTaggart, much of the credit was due; but there 

 was one present in the room who had laboured unceasingly in previous 

 years, and by that labour had paved the way for the present satisfactory 

 results. He referred to Lieutenant Ivan Tulloh, Avho two years ago 

 laid down the hoe for the entrenching tool. The same quiet, 

 painstaking and thorough qualities that distinguished Field Officer 

 Tulloh's work on the plots showed out in his military record in Gallipoli 

 and France as a private, then as Sergeant, then as Lieutenant, and was 

 evidenced further in the honorable scars of battle he bore. He hoped 

 Lieutenant Tulloh would come back to them to carry on the 

 work. (Cheers.) 



