CONTENTS 



MAY 1904 



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Field Experiments in Manuring, 1903-4 



Practical Sylviculture 



The Year's Wheat Yield 



Milk Straining 



Judging Butter for Country Shows 



Testing Milk for Taints 



Testing Dairy Cows at Leongatha Labor Colony 



A Means of Preventing Cloudiness in White Wines 



Dry Red Wines and their Treatment.. 



Utilization of Vine-Cuttings .. 



Half- Yearly Report of the Stock Branch 



Treatment of Bots in Horses 



A Unique Shipment .. 



Tobacco Experiments at Edi . . 



A New Apple Pest . . 



Two New Fungi Parasitic on Scale Insects 



The Orchard 



Garden Notes 



A Tick Proof Fowlhouse for Infested Townships 



Egg Production for Profit 



A Tick Proof Fowlhouse 



General Notes — 



The Orizaba Butter Shipment 



The American Apple Crop 



Eggs in Cold Storage 



Prussic Acid in Sorghum .. 



Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria .. 



Moisture Content of Butters, Season 1903-4 



Government Grading of Butter 



The Rainfall of the Year 1903 

 Rainfall in Victoria . . 

 Statistics — 



The Season's Crops — Preliminary Returns . . 



Perishable and Frozen Produce 



Exports of Fruit and Plants 



Publications issued by the Department 





