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also produced fine crops of lucerne, etc. The late Mr. Garden of the 

 same place obtained 30 bushels of wheat per acre, -while the adjoining 

 crops, not irrigated, were so bad that the stock were put in to consume 

 them. 



Mr. Patchell, also of Kerang, produced by means of irrigation 

 the following results: 



Wheat, from 20 to 45 bushels per acre. 



Oats, from 40 to 70 bushels per acre. 



Cape barley, 30 to 52 bushels per acre. 



Mangolds, 40 tons per acre. 



Onions, 20 tons per acre. 



Potatoes, 9 tons per acre. 



Flax, 2 ft. 6 in. lonfi. 



Lucerne, cut eight times per year; also maize. 



Sorghum and all kinds of fruits to great perfection and profit. 



J. S. Angas, of Mincha West, produced six bags of oats per acre, 

 while unirrigated land of the same quality only produced one bag per 

 acre of a much inferior sample. 



D. Milburn, of Grange Farm, Keilor, near Melbourne, sold in 

 Melbourne 1,000 worth of fruit from 20 acres of land under irriga- 

 tion. 



Mr. O'Connell, of Bacchus Marsh, a much moister district than 

 Kerang, produced, by means of irrigation, immense crops of wheat, 

 barley, oats, chicory, beets, mangolds, potatoes, carrots, cabbages, 

 etc. Lucerne was cut four times, and yielded four tons per acre of 

 hay per annum. 



Mr. Palmer, of Clyde Bank, fattened ten sheep per acre on irri- 

 gated land, but on land unirrigated he could only carry one sheep per 

 acre. 



Mr. Kavanagh, of Lake Erie, Mooroopna, irrigated 60 acres of 

 lucerne in November. In fourteen days the lucerne was 14 inches 

 high. He applied water to the paddock three times, giving it 3 inches 

 all over each time, with the result that he fattened fifteen sheep per 

 acre, and that at a time of the year when the country for miles around 

 was dried up, and not a particle of grass for stock anywhere, except 

 under irrigation. 



MILDURA. 



Gigantic efforts in irrigation were commenced at Mildura about 

 the year 1886. 



The Chaffey Bros, obtained certain concessions from the Victorian 

 government, on condition that they fulfilled certain obligations in con- 

 nection with the establishment of an irrigation colony. Everything 

 went on well for a time, and a large number of highly respectable set- 

 tlers from all parts of the world were attracted to this settlement. 



