178 TANKS AND WELLS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 
from the construction of works that will deliver the required supply 
by gravitation. The following extracts from a letter ly 
water level and reduce the lift. This gentleman writes as follows: 
“Some years ago I ploughed up about 10 acres near a lagoon on 
this station and sowed a portion in lucerne, a portion in prairie 
grass, a portion in maize, and a portion in oats. 
“The soil, although rich enough, is rather stiff and clayey, and 
it was very imperfectly broken up when the seeds were sown ; the 
consequence being that the crops came up very unevenly, but all 
the plants that did come up grew very luxuriantly 
over the surface. 
“T watered it about five times during the summer months, 
giving it on each occasion a soaking which I should think equal to 
2 inches of rain or thereabouts 
be grown in great abundance in this district by means of irriga 
ny if 
of the cost per acre of laying down and watering, od ii = 
ything like authority as to the profitableness or otherwise 
wor. : 
“T am inclined to think that ordinary agricultural products 
compact and easily transportable kind, such as flour, W' ane 
more cheaply purchased elsewhere, and brought down by rail, than 
grown here under irrigation, but that irrigation might be profita?Y — 
