Australia : The Dairy Country. 



As an instance of the value of this side line to the settler, the 

 experience of a Victorian irrigated block owner, as related in the 

 columns of the Melbourne "Argus," is worth recording. Writing from 

 Rochester, Vic., the local correspondent reported as fellows : " The 

 pig industry is becoming of great and growing importance on our 

 irrigation holdings, and that settlers are recognising its great value 

 as an adjunct to dairying is proved by the fact that there are now 





i. A Modern Piggery. 2. Feeding pigs with corn grown on the farm. 



on the settlements four times as many pigs as there were a year ago. 

 A leading auctioneer estimates that, with improved facilities, fche 

 sales in Rochester would in the near future amount to 1000 a month. 

 The methods adopted on the irrigation farm of Messrs. Jacob and 

 Kennedy, at Nannulla, show that pig raising is a leading factor in 

 their success. Mr. Jacob demonstrated that $192 per acre a year can 



