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He said that this year 280 acres had been &owii with cereals, includ- 

 ing 120 acres of wheat, 80 acres of hay, 40 acres of silage mixture, 35 

 acres of barley, 5 acres of rye for grain. The 40 acres cut for ensilage 

 gave 270 tons of green stuff. All this had been chaffed into three 

 overground silos, and was intended for winter feeding of the dairy 

 stock. Three different methods of covering the silage were being tried, 

 and the relative efficiency of these methods in preventing waste should 

 prove of interest. 



The wheat plots comprised manurial tests, rate of seeding, early 

 and late sowing tests, and variety wheat trials. Fifteen different 

 manurial tests were being conducted with varying combinations of 

 manures. Some plots were unmanured ; some had been dressed with 

 phosphatic manures applied in different forms, and at varying rates per 

 acre, while some of the plots were limed, and others treated with nitro- 

 genous and potassic manures. The comparative merits of each system 



View of Poultry Pens, Wyuna State Farm. 



of manuring would be shown on harvesting, and would indicate the 

 needs of plain land with regard to artificial manures. 



Referring to the poultry section, the development of which was a 

 feature of the farm, Mr. Richardson stated the Department was endea- 

 vouring to provide a good supply of high class egg-laying strains of 

 White Leghorn. There were at present 1,300 pedigreed Leghorns, all 

 bred from prize winners at the Government egg-laying competition. 

 Orders for eggs had been received from every State in the Common- 

 wealth during the past year. The world's record for egg-laying had 

 been established last year at Burnley, when six hens, the progeny of a 

 setting of eggs from Wyuna had laid 1,699 eggs. The cardinal prin- 

 ciples in poultry-keeping w^ere breeding, feeding, and weeding. Keep 

 only good laying strains, feed them liberally and well, and cull out 

 severel3' the inferior birds. 



An inspection of the poultry yards and plant was made under the 

 guidance of Mr. W. C. Kugg, the poultry manager. One of the first 



