Irrigation Farming in Australia. 



THE MAN-MADE RIVERS OF VICTORIA. 



The principal irrigation under the Victorian Government's 

 closer settlement scheme is on the Goulburn. The Victorian tribu- 

 taries of the Murray chief of which are the Goulburn, Campaspe. 

 and Loddon are the most constant and reliable of all that flow 

 in the parent river. The Goulburn and the Campaspe in their early 

 course wind through some lower spurs of the Great Dividing Range 

 country undulating and well-timbered, and growing all sorts of 

 fruits, especially apples under the natural rainfall. The green 



THE MAN-MADE RIVERS 

 IN IRRIGATION AREAS. 



lanes and villages here remind one of the countryside in England. 

 From this district the observer journeys gradually down to the 

 plains, where the rainfall is less, which lead finally to the Murray 

 bank. These lower plains are unrelieved by any hill or rising 

 ground, and are but sparsely covered naturally with timber (so that 

 the clearing for farms is not heavy), facts which make them a happy 

 hunting ground for the irrigation engineer, but also, it must be 

 admitted, for the occasional duststorm.. 



In former days these plains were mostly old squatters' stations. 

 Where hundreds of families are now living in Shepparton, 

 Rochester, Bamawm, Kyabram, Tongala, there were formerly a few 



