CONTENTS. 



JULY, 1922. 



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Problems ol" the F:innrr — CcjiitroUiiig Co-operative Effort — The Profitable Dairy 

 Cow — The Sale of South African P)rccl Frieslands — South African Onions : 

 Trial Shipments — The Market Oversea for Ground-nuts — A Process for Pressing 

 and I^aling Ground-nuts — Potato Culture in the Union — Rodents and Plague: 

 A Menace to Aiiriculture— Wart Disease of Potatoes — The Great Problem of 

 Drought in South Africa — An Oversea Comment on South African Wool — 

 Skins, Raw-hide Leather and Riems : Farm Manufacture — Ostrich Feathers- 

 and their Origin — Lucrative Pig Farming — Crop and Market Intelligence — 

 Advertising the Union's I!aw Products — The Export of Dried Fruit: Amended 

 Regulations — South African Wines in Competitiou — The Altered Composition 

 of Basic Slag — Export of Cotton : Assistance to the Industrj' (page 16) — 

 Citrus Export: New Regulation-^ (page 40) — Fruit Exports (page 40) — 

 Drought-stricken Districts : Railage of Live Stock (page 49) —Plant Nirrseries 

 in Quarantine as at Ist .June, 1922 (page54)— Exports of Grain, etc., 1921-1922 

 Period (page 66) — Citrus Export : Advice on many Points (page 75) — Honey 

 Production : Bright Prospects (page 75) — Outbreaks of Animal Diseases : 

 May, 1922 (page 79) — Citrus Canker Eradication (page 89) — Meat Statistics 

 (page 96). 



Departmkntal Activities ... ... ... ... ... ... 17- 



Potato Cultui!k... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 41 



The Daikv Cow ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 50' 



The Tanning anjj Braying of Skins and the Manufacture of Haw-hide 



Leathkr and RiEiis ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 55. 



Mohair ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6.3 



The Origin of Feathers from the Scales of Reptiles... ... ... 67 



Basic SLA(i : The CHAN(iE in it.s Composition ... ... ... ... 76- 



Pig Farming— II: Our More Important P.reeds of Pigs ... ... 80 



The Vegetable Garden ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 87 



The Poultry Yard Month by Month ... ... ... ... ... 88 



Staff : Appointments, Changes, etc. ... ... ... ... ... 8!> 



Notes from the "Gazette" ... ... ... ... ... ... 90- 



The Weather ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 91 



The Oversea Market ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 92 



World Crops ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... g^. 



Australian Wheat Market ... ... ... ... ... ... g.s. 



Crop Report ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ___ 93.. 



Local Market Prices ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 94 



The Local Market ... ... ... ... .,, ... ... 95. 



