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which a hose 100 feet in length is attached as required, and thus water can 
be thrown for several hundred feet on each side of the main pipes, and the 
whole ground can be thoroughly saturated. A tank placed at the farthest 
limit of the hose’s capacity can be filled by it, and the water taken to places 
too far distant to be reached by the present system. 
There are, of course, few vegetables left, as now is the time for planting 
out and sowing all kinds of vegetables. This is being vigorously done. The 
strawberry beds haye been greatly enlarged, and the young plants look very 
well. Mr. Gorrie, the horticulturist in charge of the gardens and orchard, 
expresses the opinion that none of the late planted strawberries will fail to 
grow. ‘The orchard looks very well, the trees making remarkable growth. 
Ploughing and harrowing are going on on all sides, the students doing all 
the work, and doing it well, under the supervision of Mr. Quodling, the 
overseer. . 
THE LIVE STOCK 
Appear to be doing very well, looking fat and docile; especially does the 
latter adjective apply to the young calves, who run up and try to lick the 
visitors’ hands. ‘ 
There are now 100 pigs in the paddocks, including some well-bred boars 
and sows, and three sows have litters of nine and ten each, 
THE LABORATORY. 
We were shown over the laboratory by Mr. Briinnich, chemist at the 
College. It is one of the-finest buildings on the ground, and is splendidly 
arranged for the proper instruction of the students. Long tables fitted with 
cisterns, taps, gas-burners, and drawers, run the whole length of the largest 
room. In another room the shelves are laden with all the modern appliances 
for analysis of soils, plants, &e., &c. A splendid new kind of polariscope 
forms part of the equipment, included in which is a portable fireclay furnace, 
with its mufiles, crucibles, &c., for the analysis of metals. There is a roomy 
double dark room for photographic operations. In fact, there is probably 
everything that the most exacting scientist could require to carry out elaborate 
experiments and to teach on a large scale. Mr. Briinnich is justly proud of 
the splendid establishment under his special charge. 
Generally the surroundings of the College are assuming an air of beauty 
and home comfort. Each house has a beautiful garden; palms and pampas- 
grass have been planted, and durantia hedges are becoming greatly in evidence. 
The number of pupils is sixty-four, and more applications for admittance are 
being daily received from parents in all parts of the colony. 
HEADINGTON HILL HEAD STATION. 
Irv may be interesting to farmers who have settled on ihe Headington Hill 
lands to know what was done there in the way of farming in the good old days 
when Mr. C. B. Fisher owned the land, and when the late Mr. G. H. Dayen- 
port was manager in 1877. At that time the farm proper comprised 30,000 
acres, of which area 1,444: acres were devoted to farm crops, the balance being 
. utilised for stock of various kinds. The sown crops were as follow :— 
Wheat... ie ier 850 acres (100 acres cut for grain) 
Cape and malting barley... 100 
Maize ot oon ee 160 
Lucerne... be fe3 800 
Prairie grass a0 sx 30 
Potatoes... oon a 4 
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