382 Journal of Agriculture. [10 June, 1909. 



As dairying is the principal source of income on the farm the following 

 figures will be found of interest. In all, 28 cows were milked during 

 the year with the splendid average of £^\2 14s. 6d. per cow for cream 

 alone, as shown by the following table authenticated by inspection of the 

 books of the Trafalgar Butter Factory, 



January 



February ... 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Calves to the value of ^25 were sold or kept for herd use ; for potatoes 

 the amount received was ^£93 ; and for millet seed ;£io ; making a total 

 production from the farm during 1908 of ^^484 5s. lod. in cash, to which 

 must be added the value of milk, butter. &c., for a family of 9 persons. 



The whole is a result which the owner is justly proud of, though he 

 recognises that still better results can be secured by the continued testing 

 and culling of the herd, the use of a pure bull of dairy type, the further 

 growth of fodder and its conservation by means of the silo which he pro- 

 poses to erect. 



If one farmer in this district, which contains thousands of acres of 

 equally good land, can secure the results quoted above, how is it that the 

 average output from herds is so very much less than Mr. Swingler's? 

 Some might answer that Mr. Swingler has had better opportunities. This 

 is not so, as he started with only the first instalment on the farm paid, a 

 small house, a large family, and a debt of ;^40 ; added to the.se disabili- 

 ties he suffered the loss of his first year's cultivation through what is still 

 spoken of as the big flood. To-day the capital value of the farm is 

 ;^i,5oo, the stocks consists of a herd of 28 good cows, 4 horses, and the 

 owner has a fair balance at the bank, the whole having been secured in 9 

 years. " Does farming pay?" Mr. Swingler thinks so. 



THE DELAYED GERMINATION OF CERTAIN SORTS 



OF BARLEY. 



(Conthiucd from page 2g2.) 



Alfred J. Ezvari, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S., Government Botanist and 

 Professor of Botany in Melbourne University. 



In regard to this question, a replv has been received from Prof. Adrian 

 Brown, Professor of Brewing in the University of Birmingham, from 

 which the salient features are extracted as they here follow : — 



" The grain appears to be Hofdeum imlgare var coerulescens and is 

 \ery similar in appearance but somewhat smaller than the kind of Horde urn 

 vidgare grown in California and importi^l into this country (England) 

 under the technical name of Brewing CaliforTiian. 



" For years I have been familiar with the malting of H . vulgare grown 

 in hot climates, but I have never before met with such' a case of ' holding 



