538 Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. [Aug. 2, 1920. 



A study of the foregoing figures cannot but direct attention to three 

 wheats as of outstanding value. Averaging the yields on all plots, and 

 again accepting Federation as 100, Marshall's No. 3 (a late variety) has a 

 percentage in the central west of 105-1 per cent., and Canberra (an early 

 variety) 107'4 per cent. Hard Federation, another early wheat, must also 

 be close up, having a good percentage in four out of the five localities; the 

 locality in which it does not figure well, strangely enough, is one of the driest, 

 and therefore usually suitable to an early wheat, while Marshall's No. 3 (one 

 of the slowest maturing of all) stands at 114 per cent. 



To Store Wheat por Seed. 



It is possible to keep wheat to be used as stock feed for a considerable time 

 providing (1) the wheat is free from weevil and perfectly dx'y, and (2) the 

 pit in which it is to be stored is also absolutely dry. There is a limit, of 

 course, to the time for -which such wheat would be suitable for seed 

 purposes. 



It is claimed that if dry lime is thickly sprinkled through sound wheat as 

 it is bagged, and a perfectly dry barn is used for storing, wheat will be 

 weevil-proof and will keep indefinitely. The lime can easily be blown out as 

 the wheat is used. — W. \V. Froggatt, 



Sudan Grass in the North-west. 



To ensure germination of Sudan grass in the north-west, roll after sowing. 

 In drier disti'icts best results are obtained hv sowins; in drills 28 inches 

 apart^ and using the scuffler when possible. When some stems are about 2 

 feet high cut for feed. This will induce stooling, and produce an even-headt-d 

 crop. Seed may easily be harvested with the harvester, eliminating the air 

 blast, and cleaning may then be done with a winnower or by hand. — 

 H. Baktlett, Assistant Inspector of Agriculture. 



Earm Book-kkeping to the PrON'J'. 



It is not difficult to understanfl wliy farm book-keeping has been neglected 

 in the past. The term book-keeping itself reeks of tlie town, and the office, 

 and indoor work. The farming community has been proud of its isolation 

 and distinctiveness from the town and suspicious of all that is connoted by 

 factories, ledgers and the like. . . This state of aflairs, however, is an old 

 and closed chapter. All the circumstances are altered. Faiming has not 

 escaped the rapid flux and change which has been observable for a number of 

 years, and has been accelerated during the last five. The increasing cost of 

 all farming e.xj)enses ; the pressure of income tax assessments ; increasing 

 competition ; the development of transport, t(Miding to bring town and 

 country together— all of these combine to force the question of farm book- 

 keeping to the front. — H, G. Howell, in the Journal of the Ministry of 

 Agricultvre, London, 



