THIil J CJ> URN A L 



OF 



THE DEPART][ENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



-^rxG'rOIRX.^, J^TJ-S,T1EIJ^JL.TJ^. 



A. T. SHARP, Editor. 



BOTANICAL 



CONTENTS.- -DECEMBER, 1911. 



V. Hairkuis 



G. Baxter 



A. T. Sharp 



rrofital)le Duck Farming ... ... ... ... ... // 



Farm Black.smitliing — Welding 

 Agricultural Credit Banks 

 Building Hints for Settlers — 



XV. Bull Yard and Siied 

 French Prunes ... ... ... ... P 



Oversea Markets for Fruit and Fruit I'ulp ... 



Beneficial Insects— Parasitic Wasps 



Victorian Egg-laying Competition, 1911-1'i ... 



Orchard and Garden Notes 



Improvised Motor Spraying 



Propagation of Fruit Trees — (irafting [continiK d) and Dwartin 



The olive 



Tobacco Culture (rovc/uded) 



Kye Complaints in Horses 



Answers to Correspondents — 



Sulla Clover ... .... 844 



New Zealand Black Oats ... 844 



Thousand Heailed Kale ... S4,") 



Harrows for Working Lucerne 845 



Insects on Wattles ... ... 84.5 



Onion Eel-worm ... ... 845 



Statistics- -Quarter ending 30th September, I'Jll — 



Rainfall in Victoiia ... .., ... ... ... Jf. A. Hunt 



Exports and Deliveries of Perisliable and Frozen Pioduce /'. Croire 



Expfii ts and Imports of Fruit, Plants, Bull)s, Orain, See. J. (•'. Turner 



Reminders for January 

 Index 



T. A. J. Smith 

 J . Canned !i anci F. de Ca->tella 

 J. G. Turner 

 ... C. French, junior 

 H. V. Hau-kin>i 

 E. E. Pescott 

 E. E. Pesvott 

 C. F. Cole 

 L. Macdonald 

 T A. J. Smith 

 E. A. Kendall 



Plants for Identification.. 

 Fermenting '/at 

 Almond Stocks 

 .-\imonds — V'arieties 

 Non-bearing Apple Tree 



TAliB, 



785 

 795 

 SCO 



806 

 809 

 814 

 818 

 820 

 821 

 823 

 824 

 832 

 840 

 841 



845 

 S45 

 845 

 846 

 848 



846 

 847 

 847 

 848 



848 



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