DEPARTMENTAL NOTICES. 



AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



GOVERNMENT GUANO. 



It is hereby notified that an allotment of guaoo will be made early in February next. 



The total cjuantity of guano which will be available for distribution in this allotment 

 cannot yet be determined, but all collections, ready in time for tbe forthcoming sowing' 

 season, will be disposed of and delivered with as little delay as possible. 



The distribution of the guano will be limited to bona fide farmers and gardeners only, 

 within the Union, who are requiring supplies for use during the period from February to 

 June, 1921. 



Applications must be made on the. prescfihed form obtainable from the Superintendent, 

 Government Guano Islands, 69 Strand Street (P.O. Box 251), Cajietown, arid these will be 

 received and booked ap to and including noon on Saturday, the 18th December, 1920, after 

 which date no further applications will, under any circumstances, be accepted or entertained 

 in respect to this allotment. 



Applicants are warned that, in making applications for 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 he ashed for^ us all 'mjiated orders will 

 he llahle to be disalloired. 



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 to or consigned to any persons other than those for whose use 

 it is actually required. 



The price of guano will be £10 par 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 he accepted untirafter 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. 



FOREST DEPARTMENT. 



Farmers and others interested in treeplanting are invited to apply to the Forest 

 Department for advice as to the most suitable trees for growing in the various climates and 

 soils of the Union, and on the best methods to adopt in the formation of plantations, wind- 

 breaks and shelter- belts. Applications for such advice should be addressed to the Forest 

 Officer nearest to the locality where it is intended planting should be done or to the 

 Conservators of Forests, Capetown, Knysna,Kingwilliamstown, Umtata, Maritzburg, Pretoria, 

 or Bloemfontein. 



To encourage treeplanting, transjilants of forest trees may he obtained from the Forest 

 Department Nurseries of which there are 26 situated throughout the Country and forest tree 

 seeds from the Conservator of Forests, Capetown, who has charge of the Department's 

 Seed Store. 



Copies of the latest price-list (No. 642 of 1920) for both transplants and seeds are 

 obtainable from the Forest Officers mentioned in the foregoing or from the Chief Conservator 

 of Forests at Pretoria. This publication contains a considerable amount of information 

 useful to farmers and others desirous of planting trees and it also indicates that the average 

 price for young trees ready for planting out is only 6s. per 100. These are sold firmly 

 established in half paraffin tins, each tin containing about 25 transplants. 



