CONTENTS. 



JANUARY, 1921. 



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The Secretary for Agriculture- — The Manuring of Vineyards — Union Successes 

 at the London Dairy Show, 1920 — Co-operative Agricultural Societies — The 

 Tobacco-Leaf Slug — Successful Farming — The Nodular Worm — Production and 

 Consumption of Spirits in the Union — Tractor Demonstration at Elsenburg — 

 Crop-yields of the Northern Hemisphere in 1920 — A Soil Survey of the Union 

 — Wheat Conservation and Rye Growing — Stock Dips — Tsetse Fly and Nagana — 

 Supplies of Wheat and Ky^e available for Importing Countries — Wine Show at 

 Capetown, 1920 — Oversea Exhibition of Union Produce — Salt-bush — Sugar 

 Production and Consumption in the Union — Fruit Export — South African 

 Wine in Competition — Dairying in the Union (page 38) — The Wool Market 

 (page 38) — Locusts in Asiatic Turkey (page 43) — Export of Grain (page 51) — 

 Plant Removals to Portuguese East Africa (page 55) — Outbreaks of Animal 

 Diseases in the Union (page 81) — Meat Statistics (page 81) — Cabled 

 Advices from London during the Month of November, 1920 (page 86) — 

 Plant Nurseries in Quarantine as at Ist December, 1920 (page 88). 



Departmental Activities 



Agricultural Advisory Board ... 



The Tobacco Slug 



Rye 



The Nodular Worm and the Lesions Caused by it 



Successful Farming on Government Small Holdings 



Pest Remedies and Stock Dips ... 



The Manuring of Vineyards 



Co-operative Agricultural Societies 



Walnuts... 



Dairying in the Union ... 



The Oversea Market 



Staff : Appointments, Transfers, etc. 



Notes from the "Gazette" 



Recent Agricultural Literature... 



The Poultry Yard Month by Month 



The Vegetable Garden 



Crop Report 



Local Market Prices 



The Local Market 



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