100 Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [10 Feb., 1916. 



FARMERS' FIELD DAY. 



WYUNA STATE FARM. 



Abridged from the " Kyabram Free Press.'' 



About 100 farmer? and visitors assembled at the State Farm, 

 Wyuna, on Friday, 26th November, when a farmers' field day was held. 

 Mr. A. E. V. Richardson, Agricultural Superintendent, with Mr. Baird, 

 the farm manager, conducted the visitors in a tour of inspection of the 

 crops, stock, poultry, and experimental plots. 



At the outset Mr. Richardson addressed the gathering in the imple- 

 ment shed, and read apologies from the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. 

 Hagelthorn, Mr. H. McKenzie, Minister of Railways, and the Direc- 

 tor of Agriculture, Dr. Cameron, all of whom were unavoidably pre- 

 vented from attending owing to an important meeting of the State 

 Wheat Marketing: Committee. 



Cutting Crop for Silage, Wyuna State Farm. 



Mr. Richardson, in welcoming the farmers, said they had to 

 congratulate themselves on the prospects for the coming harvest, which 

 were a pleasant contrast to the drought conditions of last year, which 

 had not been worse in Southern Australia within living memory. Re- 

 liable authorities estimated that 25,000,000 sheep and 2,500,000 cattle, 

 with thousands of valuable horses, had perished as a result of the 

 drouo-ht. The terrible experience of last year made many farmers vow 

 that they would not be caught napping again, but they would lay by 

 stores of fodder in good seasons, when there was a surplus, and hence 

 large stacks of hay were accumulating on every farm. Many farmers, 

 owing to scarcity of stock and abundance of feed were ensiling quantities 

 of green feed, both in overground and underground pits, and even in 



