Departmental Notice. 



GOVERNMENT GUANO. 



An allotment of guano will be made early in July next. The quantity 

 which will be available for disposal will be about 1500 tons, and its distribution 

 will be limited to bona fide farmers and gardeners only within the Union 

 who are requiring supplies for use during the period July, 1921, to January, 

 1922, inclusive. 



Applications must- be made on the prescribed form, obtainable from the 

 Superintendent, Government Guano Islands, 69 Strand Street (P.O. Box 251), 

 Capetown, and these will be received and booked up to and including noon on 

 Monday, the 30th May, 1921, after which date no further applications will, 

 under any circumstances, be accepted or entertained in respect of this allotment. 



Applicants are warned that, in making applications ror guano, the purposes 

 for which this fertilizer is required must be distinctly stated on the form of 

 application, and that only the quantity actually needed for those purposes 

 must be asled for, as cdl inflated orders will be liable to be disallowed. 



No application will be accepted or considered from any person who is not 

 actually farming on his own account, and only one application will be accepted 

 in respect to any one farm, portion of a farm, or group of farms under one 

 ownership, or partnership, as the case may be. 



All applications must be signed by the individuals requiring the guano, and 

 in no case will this fertilizer be supplied or consigned to any persons other 

 than those for whose use it is actually required. 



The price of guano will be £10 per ton of 2000 lb. or 20s. per bag of 

 200 lb., including bags, and delivered on rail at Capetown, or on board ship 

 in Table Bay Docks, but no remittances will be accepted until after allotments 

 have been made. 



Railage in all instances is payable by the consignee and must be prepaid 

 where guano is to be consigned to railway sidings. 



All inquiries and applications for guano must be sent direct to the 

 Superintendent, Government Guano Islands, Capetown. 



P. J. DU TOIT, 



Secretary for Agriculture. 



AGRICULTURAL SHOW SEASON, 1921. 



List of Agricultural Shows, compiled from details furnished by the Agricultural 

 Unions, still to be held. 



East London — 4th and 5th May. 



CAPE PKOVINCE. 



I Komgha — 6th and 7th May, 



TRANSVAAL. 



Pietersburg— 24th, 26th. and 27th May. | Barberton— 10th June. 



Pretoria — 31st May, 1st and 2nd June. 



Rustenburg — 1.5th June. 



NATAL. 



Dundee Agricultural Society (Dundee) — 



14th and l.'Sth June. 

 Vryheid Agricultural Society (Vryheid) — 



7th June. 

 Klip River Agricultural Society (Ladysmith) 



—12th and 13th July. 

 Umvoti Agricultural Society (Greytown) — 



14th and 15th June. 

 Weenen Agricultural Society (Estcourt) — 



16th and 17th June. 

 Royal Agricultural Society (Maritzburg) — 



21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th June. 

 Newcastle Agricultural Society (Newcastle) 



—29th and 30th June. 



Richmond Agricultural Society (Richmond) 

 —13th and 14th July. 



Victoria County and North Coast Agricul- 

 tural and Industrial Society (Stanger) — 

 14th July. 



Dronk Vlei Agricultural Society — 27th July. 



Campenlown Agricultural Society (Camper- 

 down) — 20th July. 



Ixopo Agricultural Society (Stuartstown) — 

 7th July. 



Alexandra County Agricultural Society 

 (Umzinto)— 15th July. 



