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Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 



[Oct. 2, 1920. 



The weights were again taken and the sheep measured wlien the animals 

 were 16 months old (two tooth). The averages are shown in the following 

 table :— 



The sheep comprising the test were sold in Wagga in November, 1919, 

 and both crosses realised 22s. 6d. per head. 



The results obtained are in no way conclusive, the test covering only one 

 season, and only one ram being used ; but perhaps some idea of the relative 

 value of the Roscommon is afforde<l. 



The American and the Corn Borer. 



Refkruing to the European corn borer's appearance in portions of the 

 United States, the Florida Plant Board's Quarterly Bulletin makes the 

 following statement : — "Already the States of Massachusetts and New York 

 have each expended nearly 100,000 dollars in lighting it, and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture is usir.g a Congressional appropriation of 

 250,000 dollars for the same purpose, appropriated by Congress in August, 

 1919. The Department is asking for an additional appropriation of 500,000 

 dollars, and a conference of State Commissioners of Agriculture and official 

 entomologists, lield at Albany, N.Y., and Boston, Mass., on 28th and 29th 

 August (1919), has recommended to Congress that 2,000,000 dollars be 

 appropriated at once to combat the pest, with the additional appropriation, 

 later, of as many more millions of dollars as may be necessary." 



The American knows the value of pest control. His maize crop runs 

 annually about 2,500,000,000 bushels, averaging 23^ bushels per acre, and 

 evidently he has no intention of allowing the European intruder to get his 

 crop or even skim the cream oif the profits. 



The Home-maker and the Etjral Problem. 



The loss to family and conmiunity by the waste of woman's energy . . . . 

 could be prevented by a reasonable amount of planning and well-directed 

 investment in modern equipment. There is mucli talk nowada5\s of the 

 economic importance of a contented rural population willing to stay on the 

 land and lielp to build it up. Perhaps the gi-eatest factor in bringing this 

 about will be the healthy, alert and expert home-maker, who will see to it 

 that a part of the increased income from the fai-m is directed toward the 

 improvement of the liome as a means of contentment and stinmli foi' farm 

 work. — U.S. Weekly News Letter. 



