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rye bread made from tloiu so treated is not so dark in colour as that 

 of the old milling system. 



The writer and many of his compatriots, while on the Continent of 

 Europe, learned to eat rye bread, and ultimately liked it even 

 better than bread made from pure wheaten flour. Eye meal used as 

 an admixture with wheaten flour certainly makes a very palatable 

 loaf. Rye can be grown in the drier parts of the Union with more 

 safety and less care than wheat. Before the world war, wheat and 

 flour from oversea countries were comparatively cheap, and that is 

 perhaps why the preaching (on the subject under review) of the 

 writer and of other South Africans has not, in the past, received the 

 attention it should have had. The position of the Union in regard to 

 its wheat supply is well known ; part of our requirements has to be 

 imported, a circumstance attended by difficulties which could be 

 removed -by the use of rye, and it is to be hoped that our farmers 

 throughout the Union will now take up this rye problem in all 

 earnestness. 



Locusts in Asiatic Turkey. 



The Union Department of Agriculture has carried out some 

 extensive campaigns against locusts, but its work seems small in 

 comparison with work carried out against locusts under German 

 supervision in parts of Asiatic Turkey during the war. A German 

 publication reviewed in a recent issue of Review of Ai^pUed 

 Entoinologyy states that in 1915 Anatolia, Syria, and Palestine 

 suffered greatly from locusts. An anti-locust campaign was then 

 organized, with a staff of 14 directors, 72 officers, 2000 supervisors, 

 and about 11,000 men from labour battalions and compulsory levies 

 from the population. An average of 450,000 to 500,000 workers, it 

 is stated, were employed daily from March to May, 1916, in western 

 Anatolia, and 6000 tons of locust eggs and 11,000 tons of locusts were 

 actually collected. The barrier and pit system of trapping was the 

 chief measure used against the voetgangers. Poisoning was also 

 resorted to with success, but no practical results were obtained with 

 fungoid and bacterial diseases. For work in the following season 

 250 non-commissioned officers and 2500 men were detailed as 

 instructors, while provision was made for the supply of about 300 

 miles of zinc strips to serve as barriers and 50 tons of arsenic and 

 paris green for use in preparing poison baits. 



Treating Turkish Tobncco. 



