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QuKEXSLAND, DEPARTMENT OF Agriculturk, BRISBANE. — Bulletin No. 14, Decem- 

 ber, 1891 (pp. 12), contains an article on rice growing and its ])rcparation for market. 



Bnlletin No. 15, Jannary, 1892 (pp. 14), is on Toltacco, its Cultivation in 8outlierii 

 Queensland, Ity S. Lanili. Practical directions are given for the culture, curing, and 

 packing of tobacco, with special reference to the conditions of agriculture in Queens- 

 land. In si)ite of the fact that tobacco is jnotected by a customs duty the imports 

 of American tobacco are increasing. The author believes tliat Queensland growers 

 should devote themselves to raising liigli-grade tobacco for home consumption and 

 export, leaving to other countries the production of the low and medium grades. 



Bulletin No. 16. .January, 1892 (pp. 27, tigs. 10), by E. M. Shelton. consists of 

 excerpts from bulletins of the U. 8. Department of Agriculture and of the Ameri- 

 can experiment stations, with notes and comments with reference to the needs of 

 agricultni'e in Queensland. In a number of cases the abstracts arc taken from the 

 Experiment Station Record. The subjects treated are, The Establishment of 

 Creameries (Texas Station Bnlletin No. 5), Treatment of Scale Insects (U. S. Division 

 of Entomology Bulletin No. 23), Waste of Manure in the Land (Kansas Station 

 Report for 1888), Care of Farm Manure (New York Cornell Station Bnlletin No. 27), 

 Composition of the Ramie Plant (California Station Bnlletin No. 94), Insecticides 

 (New Jersey Stations' lUiUetin No. 75), Clarifying Reagents used in Sugar Making 

 (Louisiana Stations' Bulletin No. 11), Potato Trials (Utah Station Bulletin No. 5j. 

 Abstracts of these publications may be found in P^xperimeut Station Record, vol. 

 I, p. 151 ; vol. II, pp. 415 and 664 ; vol. iii, pj). 89, 371, and 389 ; and Experiment Station, 

 Bulletin No. 2, part ii, p. 12. 



German regui.ati(>x.s for the sale of feeding stuffs. — At a congress of 

 representatives of experiment stations, the trade, and farmers, held in Berlin 

 February 20, 1892, the following general regulations were agreed upon to govern 

 the trade in "artificial" feeding stuffs: 



In every sale the seller is to furnish, without request, a written guaranty of the 

 name, purity, composition, and condition of the feeding stuff, together w ith a state- 

 meutas to the compensation which will be allowed in case the material falls below 

 the guarantied composition, and the manner in which this shall be adjusted. It is 

 recommended that in the retail trade the guaranty be aflixed to each bag, together 

 with the name of the dealer, weight of the parcel, and the name of the exi^eriment 

 station under whose control the dealer has placed himself. 



The guaranty of composition shall in all cases show the percentages of protein 

 and of fat separately, and not the sum of the two, as has been customary, and may 

 also show the percentage of carl>ohydrate8. These percentages represent the mini- 

 mum content; the guaranties showing the extreme range of composition (as 18-20 

 per cent) are not allowable. The compensation for deficiency in guarantied nutrients 

 may be adjusted in either of two ways, (1) on the basis of equi\ alents in which a 

 deficiency of one ingredient is compensated for by an excess of another, or (2) 

 according to the so-called Bemburg analysis latitude. In the former case limits are 

 fixed to the extent to which one ingredient shall be allowed to compensate for another. 

 Thus, where less than 10 per cent of fat is guarantied, not over 1 per cent is rejdaceable ; 

 above this guarantied amount, 2 per cent; and for 10 per cent of jirotein guarantied, 

 not over 3 per cent is replaceable. According to the Bernburg analysis latitude, no 

 compensation is to be exacted where the deficiency does not exceed 1.5 per cent for 

 protein or 0.5 per cent for fat. Beyond these limits rebate is to be made for all the 

 deficiencies. AVhen the adjustment is according to the latter method the adjustment 

 on the basis of equivalents can not be used, and vice veisa. AVhere fee<liug stuffs 

 are sold directly on the basis of the food ingredients they contain no latitude is 

 allowable. 



Upon proof that a feeding stuff is untrue to name, spoiled, unhealty, or mixed 

 with less valuable stuff, the seller is to make good all expenses or losses of the buyer. 



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