April 3, 1920.] Agricultural Gazette of N.IS.W. 



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3rd April, 1920. 



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CONTENTS. ««TANicAL 



PAGE. 



An Obscure Disease in Wheat ... J. T. Pridhani 229 



Rice Culture in New South Wales 

 Wheat Plots at Narromine, 1919 

 Consider your Working Horses 

 The Effect of Cross-pollination 



232 



J. E. Syme 233 



W. le Gay Brereton 134 



234 



Farmers' Experiment Plots — Wheat and Oat Experiments, 1919. Western 



District J. E. Syme 235 



Fertilisers for Green Winter Fodders H. Weuholz 241 



Effect of Subsoiling and Deep Tillage 242 



Notes on the Classification of Wheat Varieties 



F. B, Guthrie and G. W. Norris 243 



Further Reports on Elephant Grass ... 244 



A Remarkable Fodder Plant — Shearman's Clover {Tri/oHum fraijijerum var.) 



E. Breakwell 245 

 Farmers' Experiment Plots— Potato Experiments, 1918-19. North Coast 



District G. C. Sparks 251 



Pitting Potatoes A, J. Pinn 254 



Molasses for Calf Feeding 254 



Dairy Produce Factory Premises and Manufacturing Processes 



L. T. Maclnnes and H. H. Randell 255 



Sale of Pure-bred Dairy Cattle 264 



A NoTj? ox New Zealand Flax A. H. E. McDonald 264 



St. John's Wort and its Effects on Live Stock Sydney Dodd 265 



Correcting Acidity caused by Superphosphate 272 



The Powder-post Beetle and its Parasite W. W. Froggatt 273 



Some Recent Publications 276 



Cherry Growing in New South Wales ... W. J. Allen and S. A. Hogg 277 



Notes on the Dicky Rice Weevil [Prosayleus phytolymus) ... L. Gallard 280 

 The Sterilization of Tobacco Seed-beds by Steam 



G. P. Darnell-Smith and C. J. Tregenna 285 



"Leaded Bordeaux" Spray: An Analysis ... ... ... A A. Ramsay 288 



The Rice Bean [Phaseolus calcaratus) ... A. H. Haywood 289 



Poultry Notes — April ... .-. J. Hadlington 291 



Some Causes of Premature Staleness in Eggs 293 



Orchard Notes — April W. J. Allen and W. le Gay Brereton 294 



Energy and its Relation to the Life of Bees W. A. Goodacre 295 



^ Agricultural Bureau of New South Wales — Reports and Notices from 



en Branches ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 296 



^^ A Recipe for Home-made Vinegar H, E. Laffer 303 



'^'~' Agricultural Societies' Shows ... ... ... ... ... 304 



'^ Composition of '• Sulpho-ar.senate Powder" A.A.Ramsay 304 



