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of Springliurst. Fed by springs, this creek usually provides sufficient 

 extra water to keep a fair-sized vegetable garden in such a flourishing 

 condition that it produces more than sufficient vegetables for house- 

 hold requirements. 



The illustrations of the milking stock on page 89 show that these 

 Springhurst Jerseys, besides being heavy producers under dry climatic 

 conditions, are also a well-groAvn typical lot of cattle ; and it is by using 

 bulls from such stock that the general dairy cow production of the State 

 will most easily be improved. 



Still further north, and 11 miles east from "Wodonga in the Upper 

 Murray country, Mr. T. Bidgood has established a very nice stud of 

 Jersey cattle on his dairy farm at Staghorn Flat. Here on a 300-acre 

 farm, 70 acres of which are cultivated, Mr. Bidgood runs a herd of 28 

 cross-bred dairy cows, the average production of which is being steadily 

 improved by the use of Jersey bulls. 



Some of Mr. Read's young stock. 



It is five years since the foundation of Mr. Bidgood's stud was laid on 

 Jerseys purchased from Miss Robinson's Highfield stud and Mr. G. 

 Chirnside's Werribee Park stud; and there are now on the farm 23 pure- 

 bred Jerseys of all ages. That a beginning was made on right lines is 

 demonstrated by the performance of Mr. Bidgood's two entries in last 

 vear's herd test, his cow " Bluebell 2nd " giving 374 lbs. of butter fat, 

 and the heifer "Miss Twilight" 301 lbs. of butter fat in the 273 days' 

 test; and on the last day of this term they gave 12 lbs. and 15 lbs. of 

 milk respectively. 



, Mr. Bidgood has been dairying at Staghorn Flat and sending cream 

 to the Kiewa butter factory for over fifteen years. The farm land is 

 partly on the hill; but the cultivated portion is on the creek fiat across 

 the road from the homestead, and may be seen in the background of 

 the photograph reproduced on page 91. This photograph will give 

 an idea of the type of Mr. Bidgood's newly-formed stud, and show that 

 its owner has an eye for Jersey shape as well as thoughts for heavy 

 cream production. 



