9 March, 1908.] 



Statistics. 



Each farmer can best calculate for himself what is the cost per acre 

 of growing, harvesting, and feeding maize at per acre and can then calculate 

 the saving that he will effect by growing maize over feeding purchased 

 bran. Take the very poorest of the above yields (Victorian Flat Red) 

 and it will be scarcely contended that the cost of growing and feeding it 

 will approach the return yielded (;^8 15s. per acre). 



Incidentally attention may be invited to the fact that the two most 

 commonly grown maizes in Victoria are those varieties which in the 

 experiments now recorded are shown to be the least profitable. 



STATISTICS. 



Bainfall in Victoria. 



Fourth Quarter, 1907. 



Table showing average amount of rainfall in each of the 26 Basins or Regions con- 

 stituting the State of Victoria for each month and the quarter, with corresponding 

 monthly and quarterly averages for each Basin deduced from all available records 

 to date. 



* Fig-ures in these columns are subject to alterations when the complete number of returns for 

 December has been received. 



P. BARACCHI, 



Government Astronomer. 



