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more members of Parliament did not visit it and view the fine work 

 that the Department was carrying out to have the vineyards of the State 

 reconstituted, and to give the people good citrus trees — true to name. 



A vote of thanks to the Department was then carried with applause. 



In responding to a vote of thanks to the Department of Agriculture, 

 Mr. A. E. V. Eichardson, M.A., B.Sc. (Agricultural Superintendent), 

 said that the number of grafted and ungrafted resistant stock applied 

 for during the past three years averaged 1,000,000 per annum, of which, 

 approximately, 700,000 were for grafted rootlings, and 300,000 for un- 

 grafted rootlings. Three years ago, tlie Department could supply only 

 one vine for every five applied for. The limiting factor hitherto con- 

 trolling the output was the limited supplies of mother wood. During 

 the past three years, therefore, special attention had been focussed on 

 Augmenting supplies of mother wood. A 20-acre vineyard at Violet 



Sour orange stock ready for budding; seed sown, October, 1914, State 

 Nursery, Wahgunyah. 



Town was taken over by the Department and grafted with mother stocks; 

 the area at Chateau Tahbilk was extended and placed under irrigation ; 

 & new 30-acre vineyard of resistant wood was planted in 1914 at the 

 Viticultural College, and extensions had been made in the mother-stock 

 area at Wahgunyah. To cope with the increasing output the nursery 

 area was doubled, and a powerful pumping plant installed. The result 

 of these extensions would mean that the demand would be rapidly over- 

 taken. In the nursery, 500,000 ungrafted rootlings and 220,000 grafted 

 footlings had been planted during the past year, and, in view of the 

 favorable " strike," the College expected to distribute a total of 500,000 

 grafted and ungrafted. That is to say, they were now supplying one 

 vine for every two ordered. Within the next two years it was probable 

 that every applicant would be supplied with his full quota of vines. If 



