40 Agricultural and Horticultural Resources. 



Gastlemaine. 



The Agricultural Society reports that the important crops 

 are, wheat, oats, and oaten hay ; lucerne, sorghum, maize, and 

 turnips are also grown : the only two crops in the one year 

 that can be depended on are potatoes after barley. Mainly 

 adverse to cultivation is frost. Vast tracts of country are ad- 

 mirably situated for irrigation, and would at least be doubled 

 in value if such a system was scientifically introduced. 



Bendigo. 



The Agricultural Society reports- 

 Oats ... ... ... 30 bushels per acre; 



Wheat ... ... 20 „ 



Cape barley ... ... 40 ,, „ 



Oaten hay ... ... 30 cwt. „ 



Maize, sorghum sacharatum, millet, ryegrass, lucerne, mangold 

 wurzel, English barley, clover, white and yellow, have been experi- 

 mentally cultivated with success. Rape and turnip are subject to 

 blight. 



Oaten hay or green barley may be succeeded in one year by maize, 

 sorghum, mangold wurzel, potatoes, or turnips. 



The influences adverse to cultivation in these districts are drought, 

 hot winds, and unseasonable frost. 



Artificial irrigation would be universally beneficial as a corrective to 

 the prevailing drought, but it has not been hitherto attempted, labor 

 being too expensive. 



Carisbrooh District. 



The Agricultural Society reports that — 



The crops, and their average yield per acre, are as follows : — 



Wheat ... ... 25 bushels per acre. 



Oats ... ... 30 „ „ 



Barley ... ... 25 „ „ 



Potatoes ... ... 1 \ tons „ 



Hay n „ 



The crops experimentally cultivated are as follows : — Maize, lucerne, 

 sorghum, tobacco, hemp, carrots, parsnips, and turnips. 



The imports into these districts are very large, chiefly oats, flour, 

 and potatoes. 



• Wheat, oats, barley, and lucerne, are most suited to the soil of these 

 districts. 



Hay and potatoes for a double crop. 



Adverse influences are late frosts, early hot winds, and want of rain. 



The introduction of a system of artificial irrigation would probably 

 double the producing property of all the land. 



