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STAFF: APPOINTMENTS, TRANSFERS, ETC. 



(1) Agriculture. 



1/10/20 F. J. du Toit: Under-Secretary for Agriculture, appointed Acting 

 Secretary for Agriculture. 



(2) Agricultural Education. 

 7/10/20 Miss M. M. van Duyn: Assumed duty at Pretoria as Lecturer and 

 Demonstrator in Domestic Science. 



15/10/20 Miss K. Oosthuizen: Assumed duty as Lecturer and Demonstrator 

 in Domestic Science at Glen School of Agriculture. 



15/10/20 Gill, G. A.: Assumed duty as Lecturer in Botany at the Grootfon- 

 tein School of Agriculture. Mr. Gill was awarded a Government 

 Bursary for study at Cambridge in 1914, and has just returned 

 to South Africa. His studies were interrupted by three years' 

 active service. 



MOVEMENTS OF OFFICERS. 



Mr. E. Farish, who has been visiting those farmers participating in the 

 srheme for the determination of the cost of production of maize in the Trans- 

 vaal, Orange Free State, and Natal, returned to Pretoria for the Principals' 

 Conference on the 30th November. The object of the scheme is to determine, 

 for representative farmers in the chief maize-growing areas, the economics of 

 maize production. The work is being undertaken with the co-operation of the 

 Maize Bleeders' Association. 



Hartebeestpoort Training Farm. — This farm is now being prepared for the 

 admission of returned soldiers with phthisical tendencies. The present staff 

 consists of : — 



Superintendent, Mr. G. W. Edmunds; Horticulturist, Mr. D. J. Dreyer ; 

 Field Foreman, Mr. L. C. Gott; Matron, Mrs. L. G. Dodd. 



Instruction will be given in poultry, horticulture, and other branches of 

 agricMilture suited to the needs of the students. This Department will be 

 responsible for the administration and management generally. 



CROP AND LIVE STOCK REPORT. 



October, 1920. 



WHKAT. OATS. AND BARLEY. 



Fiom the icpovts received it is estimated that the prospect of the Union's wheat crop 

 is about 3 per rent, less than September owing to drought conditions prevailing in parts of 

 the 'Hstr.cts of Bredasdorp and Caledon, to rust in parts of Malmesbury, and green fly in 

 Calvinia, the four principal wheat growing districts in the Union. 



There is a slight decline ia the Transvaal and an increase in the Orange Free State, 

 which makes the condition of the wheat crop for the whole of the Union 8 per cent, below 

 normal as shown by the following statement. Oats have shown an improvement over 

 September, but barley has decreased slightly. 



