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■J ournal of A(/rlcuUurc, \icturia. \ 1 1 Aug., 1W19. 



Mr. Pollard finds that at present, owing to the rabbits, it takes a 

 couple of acres to maintain a sheep. He places reliance entirely upan 

 natural grasses, though some rye grass about the homestead has done 

 well. 



Serious loss to implements, stock, and farm buildings from bu>h 

 fire", was sustained by Mr. Pollard recently. 



Mk. T. Keynolds' Impkoved Method.s. 



This young settler has adopted a system of agriculture under which 

 only concentrated produce leaves his farm. He abandoned the practice 

 of growing potatoes for the market, and has centred his efforts on 

 growing sufficient of this and other crops for feeding pigs and dairy 

 cows. In this way the ruinous haulage charges and much loss of time 

 were avoided. 



Young cattle grazing on cocksfoot and clover, at Mr. T. Reynolds'. 



In the management of his small dairy herd and of his pigs, Mr. 

 Reyno'ds has adopted sound methods, and, while it cannot be claimed 

 that liis returns in these activities are at all extraordinary, they certainly 

 do show a marked improvement over the yie'ds per acre obtained from 

 tha average farm in the district. 



It is a further tribute to the energy and persistency cf Mr. Reynolds 

 to know that when he started to actively work his partial'y imp. oved 

 block, in 1911, he had but a few pounds in his pocket, and was forced 

 to buy all his stock-in-trade on credit. 



The original purchases were: — 



Five cows, at ,£4 4s. 



Grass seed 



Separator 



Plough 



Babcock tester 



Churn 



Scales 



