V.— AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL 

 RESOURCES. 



The following report on the agricultural resources of Vic- 

 toria has been compiled from authentic information, kindly 

 furnished by some of our best informed agriculturists ; and to 

 render the respective resources of each district more easily 

 understood, they have been separately considered according to 

 the three main geographical divisions of the country — namely, 

 that south of the Dividing Range and west of Port Phillip, 

 and that north of the Dividing Range and south of the Murray 

 River, and that of Gipps Land and the Western Port District. 



DIVISION I. — SOUTH OF THE DIVIDING KANGE, AND WEST OF 

 POET PHILLIP. 



Melbourne District 



The subjoined summary of the average agricultural produce 

 of the metropolitan district, together with a statement of the 

 crops experimentally cultivated, and other items of informa- 

 tion, are furnished by the committee of the Port Phillip 

 Farmers' Society. 



The principal crops grown in this district, and those which 

 succeed best, are wheat, oats, oaten hay, and potatoes, the 

 estimated average yield being — 



"Wheat ... 22 bushels per acre. 



Barley ... 25 „ „ 



Oats ... 35 



Oaten hay ... 1^ tons „ 



Potatoes ... 6 „ „ in those por- 



tions of the district best adapted to their 

 cultivation. 

 Of the crops experimentally cultivated, beans, peas, tares, 

 mangold wurzel, and carrots, have yielded excellent harvests, 

 but owing to the attacks of the aphis the turnips and cab- 

 bage crops have been complete failures during the last few 

 years. The cultivated grasses, trefoils, lucerne, &c, have been 

 found to succeed well, as also maize and sorghum, when sown 



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