Sevt. 2, 1920.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 



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2nd September, 1920. 



CONTENTS. 



Farmers' Experiment Plots— Lucerne Top-dressing Trials, 1919-20. page. 



Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas A. N. Shepherd 609 



Central Coast J.M.Pitt 612 



The Value of Farm Accounts .. .. H. G. Howell 616 



Profitable Farming Depends on Three Things E. T. Meredith 616 



Spraying as a Preventive for Blow -flies— Trials at Trangie Experiment 



Farm A. H. MacDougall 617 



The! Castration of Lambs ... ... ... 618 



A Dam that did not "Hold" 618 



Some Advantages of a Rough Surface in Cultivation ... J. T. Pridham 619 



Negro County Agents 620 



Farmers' Experiment Plots — Potato Experiments, 1919-20. 



Central Western District B. C. Meek 621 



South Coast R. N. Makin 623 



Lucerne's Increasing Popularity in Canada ... ... ... 625 



Good Investments — Big Returns E. T. Meredith 626 



Grass, Millet, and Sorghum Trials at Prospect ... E. Breakwell 626 



The Treatment op Roofing Iron 626 



Notes on Wheats entered for the Royal Agricultural Society's Show — 



Easter, 1920 F. B. Guthrie and G. W. Norris 627 



Flax-growing in Victoria R. G. Downing 636 



Broom Millet on the Manning J. M. Pitt 637 



Puke Seed-growers Recommended by the Department 644 



Chats about the Prickly Pear — No. 6 J. H. Maiden 645 



Production of Fourteen Herds Compared — Farms on Bodalla Estate 



L. T. Maclnnes 649 



The United St.4tes Outlay on Progressive Agriculture 650 



An Inquiry about False Castor-oil Plant {Datura Stramoniu7n) ... ... 650 



Suspected Cases of Poisoning of Stock ... Max Henry and E. GrilSth 651 



Vegetable Gardening in September ... ... ... ... ... 653 



The Control of Cattle Tick — Experiments with Arsenical Dipping Fluids 



L. Cohen 654 



The Pruning of the Vine ... H. E. Laffer 655 



Hay that contained Stink Grass {Eragrostis major) ... S. T. D. Symons 661 



The Mexican Apple 681 



To Utilise Fro.sted Maize for Stock-feed ... 662 



Protection of Honey Trees W. A. Goodacre 662 



Cotton Growing in New South W^ales 663 



Bees Superseding their Queens W. A. Goodacre 665 



A Combined Productive and Queen-raising Hive W. A. Goodacre 666 



Root Rot of Fruit Trees due to Armillaria mellea ... W. A. Birmingham 669 



To Rebuild an Apiary depleted by Drought W. A. Goodacre 673 



Poultry Notes— September J- Hadlington 674 



Community Action and Grasshopper Control ... 676 



Size of Core and its Significance to Maize Growers H. Wenholz 676 



Orchard Notes— September W. J. Allen and S. A. Hogg 677 



The LuE GiM Gong Orange W.J.Allen 678 



Squaring a Foundation ... 678 



Agricultural Bureau of New South Wales — 



Suggested Subjects for Bureau Meetings ... 679 



Reports and Notices from Branches ... ... ... ... 6/9 



Agricultural Societies' Shows ••• 684 



