CONTENTS. 



AUGUST, 1922. 



Pagk 

 Notes ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 97 



A New Featuie — Commoa I'or.ato Pests — A Potential Weed — -An Export Trarle 

 in Cantharidin Beetles A Library for the Farmer — The Regiihttions Govern- 

 ing the Loan of Books frum the Library — South African Ground-nuts : Oversea 

 Confectionery Trade — 'I'he Mohair Traile : A Reprehensible Practice — Wool 

 Growers" Associations— Codling-Moth in Pears: Dusting Experiments— Pear 

 . Scab in the Western Province— Government Scholarships — Different Methods 

 of Curing Tobacco — Irrigation Dangers and their Avoidance — The (Quality of 

 South African Wool— Lucrative Pig- Farming — Anthrax: Contraction by 

 Natives — -East Coast Fever in the Transvaal- Export Oranges and Quinces 

 (page 117) — Plant Nurseries in Quarantine as at 1st July, 1922 (page IHO) — 

 Outbreaks of Animal Diseases : .June, 1922 (p.ige 163) — Citrus Canker Eradi- 

 cation (page 192 ). 



Departmental Activities ... ... ... ... ... ... 1U8 



The Great Drought Problem of South Africa ... ... ... IIK 



Different Methods of Curin<; To]'.A(H'o ... ... ... ... ... 131 



A Pt'TENTTAL WEED ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 1">1 



Irrigation : Its Relation to Cr<»v Vik[>ds, Soil, and -'Brak' (Aij<Ara) 153 



Pig-Farming in South Africa— 111 ... ... ... ... ... 164 



Common Potato Pests ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• li'O 



The Control of Codling-Moth in 1'eai;s in South Africa ... ... 176 



Inquiries and Replies ... ... ... ... •■• ■■• •■• ^^^ 



The Poultry Yard Month by Month ... ... ... ... ... 190 



Notes prom the "Gazette" ... ... ... ... ... ... 191 



Recent .Agricultural Literature ... ... ... ... ... 192 



