Nov. 2, 192p.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W, 



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2nd Novemher, 1920. 



CONTENTS. 



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Sheep and Wool for Farmers — Cross-breeding Experiments — Results of Lamb- 

 raising Trials ... ... ... ... ... ... J. Wrenford Mathews 761 



A Co-operative Sheep Dip C. C. Crane 770 



Basic Super or Soperphosphate F. B. Guthrie 770 



Proposed Standards for Grading New South Wales Wheats E. Harris 771 



Modern Farm Practice E. H. Jenkins 772 



The Culture of Sugar Cane in New South Wales ... A. H. Haywood 773 



The Influence of the Tractor os the Use of Horses 7S0 



Farmers' Experiment Plots — Potato Experiments, 1919-20 — Upper North 



Coast District W. D. Kerle 781 



" Pot Boilers " on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas A. N. Shepherd 788 

 Popular Descriptions of Grasses [continued) — The Sporobulus Grasses 



E. Breakwell 789 



The Searing Iron versus the'Knife for Detailing Lambs 792 



The Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research, Nelson, New Zealand ... 793 



Fallow or Summer Fallow? A. H. MacDougall 794 



A Woman's Movement in Rural Life 794 



Farmers' Experiment Plots — Maize Experiments, 1919-20 — South Coast District 



R. N. Makin 795 



A Silage Stack on the North Coa.st.. 798 



Trials of Grasses and Fodder Plants — Glen Innes Experiment Farm 



L. F. Rowney 799 



Tick Eradication in United States of America Max Henry 803 



Pure-seed Growers Recommended by the Department ... 804 



Farmers' Experiment Plots— Summer Fodder Experiments, 1919-20— Central 



Coast J- M. Pitt 805 



Canada's Necessity — and Ours S. F. Tolmie 808 



Safeguarding Farm Stock from Disease— (3; By Correct Feeding (continued) 



Max Henry 809 



When TO Cut FOR Hay A. H. E. McDonald 814 



Strawberry Culture around Sydney {continued) L. Gallard 818 



Vegetable Growing on the Mukrumbidgee Irrigation Areas 



A. N. Shepherd 820 



Potassium Cyanide for Trapping Fruit-flies A. A. Ramsay 821 



Pig-fattening Experiments with Dried Blood ... ••■ 822 



The Production of Bees-wax W. A. Goodacre 823 



An Experiment in Artificial Fertilisation . W. A. (ioodacre 826 



Poultry Notes— November ... J- Hadlington 8i7 



Orchard Notes— November W. J. Allen and S. A. Hogg 830 



The Farmers' Bulletins .. ••• ••• ^^| 



Cleaning of Imported Impure Seed ... ... ... E. Breakwell 831 



Agricultural Bhreau of Nkw South Wales — 



Suggested Subjects for Bureau Meetings °^2 



Reports and Notices from Branches ... ... ... °^" 



Agricultural Societies' Shows ••• °^^ 



