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Joiinial of A^riLidtiire. 



[lo Sept., 1908. 



only 3 yards wide and a couple of hundred yards long ; yet each keeps a 

 farnily.' At the Veterinary Department I met Mr. Littlewood who gave 

 me some notes on the many diseases that attack the stock, and said they 

 had not the least idea of the number of sheep or horses in Egypt, but 

 roughly there were 718,000 cattle and 781,000 buffalos on the returns for 

 1907. ' Great numbers of all kinds were imported every year for food, 

 and 44,000 camels were also imported from Asia for food last year. In 

 going through the Entomological collection, while Mr. Willcocks had no 

 specimens of the fruit fly Dacus longislyliis that has been several times 

 recorded from Cairo, I found he had a number of specimens of our 

 Mediterranean fruit fly {Halterofho?a capitata) which, as far as I know, 

 has never been recorded from Egypt. These were bred from Egyptian 

 oranges. 



As I was informed that the conditions of cultivation all over Egypt 

 were the same, and I would have had to remain six days longer in Cairo, 

 if I missed the next mail boat, I took my passage in the R.M.S. China, 

 and reached Port Said late on the 19th, transhipped at Aden into the 

 R.M.S. Oriental on the 24th, and should reach Bombay on the 29th. 

 I expect to be there two or three weeks, then go to Ceylon, and after a 

 week at the Entomological Station, leave for Australia. 



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The produce of two citron seeds is shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion. They were sown by Mr. F. Hanney, ofi' Centre- road, Clayton, on- 

 new sandy soil that had only been worked for twelve months previously. 

 The soil had been twice manured with horse and cow manure mixed with 

 farm-yard manure at the rate of five cwt. to the acre. The total weight of 

 the eighteen melons was 725 lbs., and as the space occupied was 20 feet by 

 12 feet, this would average 58 tons 14 cwt. to the acre. The seeds were 

 planted on the 3rd September, 1907, and until the melons were picked on 

 the 23rd May, 1908, the plants only received 50 gallons of water. 



