36 Agricultural and Horticultural Resources. 



Glendaruel District. 



In the Glendaruel district, which in regard to soil and other 

 circumstances is very similar to the foregoing, we have an 

 instance quoted by the committee of the society of the suc- 

 cessful results of irrigation on a farm where it had been 

 experimentally tested. 



From potatoes, the crop on which the experiment had been 

 made (the soils in both cases being chocolate of equal quality), 

 the returns were as follows : — 



Produce of potatoes, irrigated ... 8 tons per acre. 

 Ditto not irrigated 2 „ ,, 



We have an account also of an experiment instituted for 

 the purpose of ascertaining the effects of draining on some 

 heavy clay bottom lands in the district, where the produce of 

 the wheat crops on the drained land was found to be 30 bushels, 

 as compared with 1 9 bushels per acre off the undrained land. 



From the report of the committee we also learn that two 

 crops have been obtained in one year, viz., barley, succeeded 

 by sixty days' maize, grown on well-manured "chocolate" 

 soil. Wheat is the principal crop, and barley, gram, potatoes, 

 and mangold wurzel do well. 



Kyneton District. 



The committee of the Kyneton Agricultural Association 

 state that the crops are chiefly wheat, oats, eaten hay, and 

 potatoes, of which oats seem the most successful, and mangold 

 wurzel, sorghum, and rye, all do well. 



The average yields are — 



Oats ... ... ... 45 bushels per acre. 



Wheat 25 „ 



Oaten hay ... ... 2 tons „ 



Potatoes 3^ „ „ 



Except for change of seed, there is no agricultural produce 

 imported into the district, and the only impediments to the 

 success of the crops are frosts and cold winds, which may 

 in a great measure be ascribed to the general elevation of this 

 portion of the colony. 



Kilmore District. 



The returns relative to the climate, nature of the soil, and 



crops cultivated, correspond generally with those previously 



given. The staple products are wheat, oats, oaten hay, and 



potatoes ; while of the crops experimentally tried, mangold 



