THE JOURNAL 



OF 



THE I)EPAR:rMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



A. T. SHARP, Erlitor. 



CONTENTS.— SEPTEMBER, 1911. 



The '■ Escutcheon '■ : A (iuide to Milking Merit ... ... J. S. McFadzean 



Device for Opening and Closing of Cow-bails ... ... II. G. Churches 



Passion Fruit Culture ... ... .. ... ... J. Farrell 



Supplementary List of Artificial Fertilizers registered under 



the Artificial Manures Acts ... .. ... ... P.R.Scott 



Tobacco Culture — Types, Diseases and Pests ... ... T. A. J. Smith 



Farm Elacksmithing — Tools ... ... ... ... O. Baxter 



Spring Management of Bees .. ... ... ... F. R. Beuhne 



Absorption of Food Substances and Poisons through Leaves ... A. J. Etcart 



The Soy Bean ... ... ... ... ... . . V. Dfschamp 



Potato Experimental Fields, 1910-11 ... ... ... G.Seymour 



Dried Fruits P>eetle ... ... ... .. ... C. F-rPMch, jun. 



Propagation of Fruit Trees — "J rimming Stocks for Pltinting ... C. F. Cole 



Orchard and Garden Notes .. ... ... ... L\ K. Pescott 



Vine Diseases in France — Sweet Hot, Blue Mould, White Rot, 



Hoot Rot ... ... .. ... ... F. (Ic Castella 



Victorian Egg-laying Competition, 1^11-1012 ... ... H. V. Haichins 



Answers to Correspondents 



Repairing " \Vattle and Dab 

 Outbuildings 



... 654 



Painting Farmyard Fences ... 654 



Castration of Horses ... ()y4 



Death of Wethers .. ... 654 



Value of the ]<>scutclieon ... 655 



Pickling Wheat ... .. 655 



Skinless Barley ... ... 655 



Lucerne ... . . . . 655 



Rape .. ... 655 



Swede Turnips .. ... 655 



Fowl Man lire ... ... 655 



Coal Ashes 

 Wood Ashes 

 L^rine .. 

 Sawdust 

 Black Scale 



Trees 

 Strawberries 

 Strawberry Fly... 

 Kibbed Case Moih 

 Tarpaulins 

 Hard Seeds 



I Soot on Orange 



^fourtial of Agriculture — Copyright Provisions and Subscript ion Rates inside front 

 Reminders for October ... .. ... ... ... inside back 



Destructive Innect'i of Victoria, Part V. ... ... .., ... back 



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COPYRIGHT PROVISIONS AND SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 



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Subscriptions should be forwarded to the Director of Agriculture, Melbourne. 

 A complete list of the various publications issued by the Department of Agriculture 

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