THE JOURNAL 



OF 



THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



CONTENTS. - 



Farm Engines and their Care ... 

 Manure Invoice Certificates ... 

 The Re-making of an Orchard 

 Success in Egg Culture 



Results of Analyses of Samples of Artificial Manures 

 Garden Notes — The Fuchsia ... 

 Nhill Farm Competition, 1906 



The Proclaimed Plants of Victoria — Wild Mustard or 

 Charlock ... ... ... A. J. Ewart 



Tatura Farm Competition, 1906 

 Agricultural Education — 



Report on Classes held during 1906 ... 



Classes for 1907 ... 

 The Orchard 

 Description of Apple — London Pippin or Five Crown 



Pippin ... 

 Impressions of Denmark 

 Diseases of Farm Animals — 



VI. — Veterinary Operations, Methods and Practices ... 

 Answers to Correspondents ... 

 Agricultural Education in Victoria ... ... ... 



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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



The Staff of the Department has been organized to a large extent for the 

 purpose of giving information to farmers. Questions in every branch of agriculture 

 are gladly answered. Write a short letter, giving as full particulars as possible, of 

 your local conditions, and state precisely v/hat it is that you want to know. All 

 inquiries must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. 



Butter Fat. — J.C.A. inquires whether the quality of the food consumed by cows increases 

 the percentage of butter fat. 



Answer. — The most reliable experiments have shown that the proportion of butter fat in 

 milk is fairly constant, and is not influenced in any great degree by the quality or nature of the 

 food consumed. Foods rich in protein, however, such as bran, peas, beans, clover, lucerne, and 

 the like, appreciably increase the quantity of milk yielded, and are, therefore, profitable to feed, 

 though not under all circumstances. 



Contagious Abortion.— D.W.H. writes — " Some of the cows have taken the bull as often 

 as five and six times, but are not in calf. I have removed the bull, and will not let him go with 

 them until June. He has been thoroughly washed with lysol, and his sheath has been well 

 syringed. Would there be any danger of contagion if he is put with another herd ? " 



Avswer. — There certainly would be a danger of the bull infecting a fresh herd of cows. 

 The disinfection of sheath and genitals should be repeated two or three times, and the bull nob 

 used for service for three or four months. 



(Continued on inside back cover.) 



