THE .TOTJKN^AL 



OF 



THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A. T. SHARP, Editor. 



CONTENTS.— JUNE, 1911. 



Propagation of Fruit Trees — Planting and Stocks 



Citrus Fruit Culture 



Spraying for Irish Blight ... 



Tomatoes and Irish Blight 



Vernacular Names of Victorian Plants 



Tobacco Culture — Packing and Marketing ... 



Vine Diseases in France — Oidium ... 



Orchard and Garden Notes 



Destructive Insects of Victoria — Part V. 



8eeds and Seeding 



Maggot Fly in Sheep 



A Cheap Silo 



The Silo : A Factor in Modern Agricultuic ... 



A Successful Ballarat Dairy Farm ... 



Candied Honey 



General Notes— Vintage Returns at Butherglen Viticultural 

 College 



Answers to Correspondents 



Joiiriia/ of Afjricuffnre — Copy right Provisions and Subscription R: 



Reminders for July 



C. F. Cole 

 E. E. Pescott 

 1). Mc Alpine 



D. McAlpine 



T. A. J. Smith 

 F. de Castella 



E. E. Pescott 



L. Maalonald 



H. W I him 



J. .1/. B. Connor 



H. C. Churches 



A. J. Boss 



F. 7?. Bcuhve 



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