ANALYSES OP ARTESIAN WATERS OE NEW SOUTH WALES. 269 
23 sugar-canes. The average waterings were once every three 
weeks, until the warm weather came on, and after that sometimes 
once a week. Pumpkins, melons, &c., were sown on the 9th 
September, and wer$ ripe on 26th November. A trial farm was 
also laid out on the Barringun Bore in October, 1892. The 
seeds planted were lucerne, millet, maize, sorghum, and planters. 
The maize did not do very well ; but the others thrived well. The 
lucerne has been cut on an everage every three months since. Trees 
and vines were planted, and mostly all the fruit trees are doing well ; 
as also is the sugar-cane. The plants are irrigated about once every 
three weeks. At this bore 100 acres are under irrigation, raising 
fodder for the working horses, and in a bad season, the Superintendent 
of Public Watering Places states, from his personal knowledge, that 
£1,500 was spent in one season upon a property in the district for 
horse feed alone. 
At the Belalie Bore an experimental farm was planted with 
747 forest trees, 128 fruit trees, and 484 grape cuttings. Those 
living and doing well are over 400 forest trees, 100 fruit trees, and 
160 vines. The forest and fruit trees were watered almost daily in 
September and October, but only sparingly, as the caretaker carried 
the water in buckets, and gave each plant one pint. After the month 
of October the trees were watered once a month. The trees planted 
on this farm are looking better than any on the other farms. 
The mortality in a large number of cases may be attributed to 
the difficulty in forwarding the trees, and the long land carriage 
necessary to land them on the spot. Some of the plants — oranges 
especially — were described as perished before being planted. 
On an experimental farm laid out at the Enngonia Bore near 
Bourke, in July, 1893, there are thriving over 500 forest trees, 100 
fruit trees, and 80 vines. These were watered once every two or 
three weeks. 
The quantity of water obtained through our bores must necessarily 
be limited, and cannot be available for the irrigation and reclamation 
of vast areas of land; but there is a large quantity over and above 
that required for human consumption and stock, which can be utilised 
for the irrigation of small farms and orchards, and thus reclaim land 
which previously was barren. In the southern part of California, 
Texas, and other districts these waters are being widely used for the 
irrigation of small farms, orchards, &c. At the celebrated fruit ranch 
of Riverside, 8 an Bernardino Co., California, which derives a portion 
of its water supply from artesian wells, there arc over 12,000 acres of 
fruit trees under cultivation, served by thirty-eight artesian wells. 
At San Gabriel, California, 1,200 acres in extent are supplied 
solely by artesian wells, of which there are twenty-one on the estate, 
varying from 75 to 100 feet deep. The Alamosa Town Well, situated 
in the San Luis Valley, is described as the principal source of 30 miles 
of irrigation ditches within the corporate limits of Alamosa. In 
Hawaii, in the margin of Pearl Harbour, 20,000 acres of rice and 
large areas of bananas are irrigated by artesian wells, in addition to 
which power is provided for several large mills. 
