Journal of Agriculture. 



[lo March, 1910. 



IRRIGATION OF LUCERNE. 



Elwood Mead, Chairman, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission. 



The law defining the duties of the State Rivers and Water Supply 

 Commission requires it to instruct occupiers of laiid in Irrigation and 

 Water Supply districts " in the best methods of irrigated culture and the 

 utilization of water applied to agriculture." In the performance of this 

 dutv the Commission intends to publish, from time to time, bulletins 

 giving practical information, as an aid in the improvement of irrigation 

 practice. 



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MANNER OF GRADING AND APPLYING WATER. 

 (First Field Prepared — Tatura Demonstration Farm.) 



The first of these bulletins deals with the irrigation of lucerne, because 

 it is regarded as the most useful crop which can be grown in Victorian 

 irrigated areas, and the one destined in time to become the most valuable 

 nnd important. The irrigated areas must be the chief reliance of the 



