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consequently whatever dividend the pool distributes will be his profit 

 on the transaction. As the f.o.b. price of wheat is at present 5s. 3|d., 

 he will be substantially rewarded for his enterprise. Assuming the dis- 

 tribution from the pool to be only Is. 6d. per bushel, the investor will 

 reap a net profit of £500 on an outlay of £890. 



Both the farmers and the investor are satisfied with their joint 

 operations. The farmers stated that had it not been for the investor 

 they would not have been able to put in the extra 704 acres of land. 

 They received cash advances of 16s., and £1 per acre, which was their 

 estimated cost of the working; of the land, and, in addition, they received 

 for the rent of their land one-third of the crop, amounting in all to 3,339 

 bushels, less their third share of the cost of seed and manure. 



Fresh contracts with these farmers, involving 1,000 acres of new land, 

 have been drawn up for the coming year, and provision is being made 

 for cultivating the land more thoroughly than was possible last season. 



The above case is an interesting illustration of the manner in which 

 financiers may assist in increasing the output of foodstuffs with advan- 

 tage to themselves, the farmers, and the Empire, and the Department 

 will be glad to again act as the intermediary on receipt of communica- 

 tions from those willing to invest. 



VERNACULAR NAMES OF VICTORIAN PLANTS. 



Continued from page 58, Vol. XIV . {10th January, 1916). 



Communicated by Alfred J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D., Chairman, and 

 C. S. Sutton, M.B., Ch.B., Secretary of the Plant Names Committee 

 of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. 



