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Europe, with a view to the development of Agricultural 

 Education in this colony. The Minutes of Evidence on 

 these several subjects ar submitted herewith. 



In our last Report to Your Excellency we stated that 

 we were fully convinced of the value attached by the 

 public to the Handbooks we have already issued, founded 

 on the evidence given before us, on the subjects of Silos 

 and Ensilage (No. 1), and (No. 2) on the cultivation of 

 Perfume Plants and the production of Essential Oils and 

 Medicinal Drugs. The published returns of the Govern- 

 ment Statist show that in the first instance very great 

 advantage to agriculture in Victoria has resulted from 

 the dissemination of the information regarding Ensilage, 

 and in the latter a flourishing Government Perfume 

 Farm is now existing at Dunolly, where eight months 

 ago there was nothing to be seen but the primitive bush. 

 This official example is, to our knowledge, already bearing 

 fruit, and we have every reason to believe that a new 

 industry has been added to the colony. 



Accompanying the present Report, we beg to hand to 

 Your Excellency a third Handbook, which is entirely 

 devoted to the important industry of Vine-growing. 



This work has been prepared by Mr. Fra^ois 

 de Castella, one of the experts attached by the 

 Government to the Board of Viticulture, who from 

 training and education is specially qualified to compile 

 from the evidence given by the witnesses, and from 

 his own experience in this colony, a Manual which 

 shall be of practical service to the vine-growers of 

 Victoria. 



