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BLUE 
LAKE 
OATMEAL. 
Equal to the 
Finest Scotch 
Oatmeal, 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
July 1, 1909 
Nutritious. 
MADE IN YOUR OWN STATE by the Blue Lake Oatmeal Milling Coy. 
& & BRIGE & 66., kTD 
AGENTS FOR THE 
-y COMMONWEALTH. 
well cared for as the first was; and the 
profits from them have been equally sus- 
tained. 
The 40 acres are now subdivided into 
nine paddocks, and ten cows are kept. As 
the land came more under cultivation and 
the dairying work extended, the growing 
of fruit and vegetables for market was 
reduced. The bulk of the fruit trees 
have now been gradually removed to make 
room for fodder crops.. In the rotation 
of cropping, two or more paddocks are 
usually down in grass. These are top 
dressed with 2 cwts. of superphosphate 
per acre per year till again broken up. 
Besides the farm manure, bone dust is 
also used in cultivation, and the land 
heart. Oats, maize, 
peas, and turnips are the principal crops 
grown. 
The cows are purchased stock, of fairly 
even medium size, but of mixed breed- 
ing. From July, 1907, to June, 1908 
inclusive, the returns in cream from the 
ten cows amounted to £115 9s. 10d.—an 
average of £11 11s. per cow. The milk 
is now being sent daily to one of the 
Melbourne suburbs, the yield being 20 
kept in good 
gallons per day. 
Water has been found at various depths 
over most of this district, but the quality 
varies. In different parts of hisfarm, Mr 
Cummings has obtained both fresh and 
brackish supplies, more than sufficient for 
stock purposes. 
On a 10-acre block in this vicinity the 
owner, Mr. Helwig, after sinking 30 feet 
came on a fine supply of good water that 
rose 9 feet in the well. He erected a 
windmill and is using the water for 
By leasing a 50-acre block for 
grazing, and increasing his cows from two 
to eight head, he is now also assisting in 
the city milk trade. 
small farms that are in a similar state of 
dairy-farm development here, it is 
evident that the value of the dairy cow 
on small holdings is gradually becoming 
recognised. 
—Victorian “ Journal of Agriculture.” 
irrigation. 
From the several 
There is a big drain on the phosphates 
of the land when young stock and milking 
cattle are used to graze down the pasture 
and this has to be made good, otherwise 
the grasses will run out. 
One of the most important matters for 
a dairy farmer to bear in mind is’ that 
the returns he gets from his cattle de- 
pend greatly on the feed provided for 
them and the treatment to which they are 
subjected, ' 
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os 
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Also, a large stock 
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to choose from, 
which can be pur- 
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cent. less than 
elsewhere. j 
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forms supplied on. 
application, 
A. BROWN & CO. 
15 CENTRAL MARKET. 
