Feb. 2, 1920.] 



Agricultural Gazette of }s. /S. W. 



Registered under the Copyright Act, 1879. 



Editors of Agricultural and Country Papers are especially invited to reproduce 

 any of the articles contained in the Jtjrmxltttrsi (gazette, m whole or in part, 

 making the usual acknowledgment. 



Contributions are only accepted upon the terms thai the Government may subse- 

 quently publish the same in pamphlet form or otherwise. 



2nd February, 1920. 



CONTENTS. 



Farmers' Experiment Plots — Winter Fodder Trials, 1919 — 



Upper North Coast ... 



South Coast 



Elephant Grass in Elevated Localities 



Two New Canadian Wheat Varieties 



The Honey Locust Tree (Gleditschia triacanthos) ... 



What Departmental Help Stands For 



French Potash-salts T 



Some Recent Publications 



The Necessity for Sound Book-keeping 



The Need for Improved Methods in Handling Sheepskins 



Farmers' Experiment Plots — Maize Experiments, 1918-19 — 

 Central Coastal District 



... W. D. Kerle 

 ...R. N. Makin 



J. T. Pridham 

 ... H. W. Potts 



F. B. Guthrie 



PAGE. 



77 

 81 

 84 

 84 

 85 

 90 

 91 

 93 

 93 



J. W. Mathews 94 



J. M. Pitt 



Northern Districts R. W. McDiarmid 



Appetite as a Guide in Feeding Dairy Calves 



"Brick" Cheese-making for the Household 



Trials of Wimmera Rye-grass (Lolium subnlatum) ... ... E. Breakwell 



Soil Improvement for Maize— I. Manures and Fertilisers (co?i^z?iuerf) 



H. Wenholz 



Substitutes for Pollen and Nectar ... 



Chats about the Prickly Pear — No. I .. 



A NuBSE Crop with Lucerne ... 



The Pruning of the Vine {continued) ... ... .. 



Peach Growing in New South Wales 



Coffee in New South Wales 



Swarming and Hiving Swarms .. .; 



Two Processes for Refining Beeswax 



Poultry Notes — February 



Vineyard Notes for February ... 



Orchard Notes — February ... 



The Department and Elephant Grass 



Agricultural Bureau of New South Wales 



Sudan Grass and Rape in the Central Western Districts 



The Pine-tree Borer Active 



Agricultural Societies' Shows 



J. H. Maiden 

 ... B. C. Meek 

 ... H. E. Lafifer 

 ... W. J. Allen 



\\\ A, Goodacre 



J. Hadlington 

 ... H. E. Lafifer 

 ... W. J. Allen 



99 

 102 

 105 

 106 

 107 



111 

 116 

 117 



i:o 



121 

 127 

 133 

 134 

 136 

 137 

 141 

 142 

 143 

 144 

 151 

 151 

 152 



