THE JOURNAL 



OF 



THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



lO Jj^NTJJ^^^^, lOlO 



CONTENTS. 



PAOK, 



Poultry Farming on Small Hoklings ... ... ... H. V. Hawkins 1 



Building Hints for Settlers — 



VI. Three -roomed Weatherboard Cottage ... ... .1. S. Kenyon .32 



Orchard and Garden Notes .. ... ... ... E. E. Pescott 37 



Burnley School of Horticulture and Small Farming ... ... E. E. Pescott 41 



Sulla Clover ... ... ... ... ... ... G. A. Sinclair 47 



Irish Blight in Tomatoes ... ... ... ... ... D. McAlpine 4S 



A New Fruit Pest —Tomato Moth ... ... ... ... C. French, junr. 50 



Sheep Dipping ... ... ... ... ... ... H. W. Ham 52 



Treatment of Stinking Smut of ^^'heat ... ... ... D. McAlpine 53 



\Viuter Crops for the Silo . ... ... ... ...J. M. B. Connor 54 



Bee Mortality in the Stavvell District — 



I. Examination of Bees for Bacterial Disease ... ... C. A. E. Pi-ice 58 



II. A Disease afi'ecting European and Victorian J5ees 



a. Btuhne and 0. Willijerodt 62 



,'\ I iswerr, to Correspondents ... ... ... ... ... 64 



Journal of Agriculture — Copyright Provisions and Suljscrij)tion Rates inside front cover 



Publications issued l)y the Department of Agriculture ... inside front cover 

 Agricultural Education in Victoria — 



Dookie Agricultural College ... ... ... ... inside hack cover 



Longerenong Agricultural College ... ... ... inside hack cover 



Burnley School of Agriculture and Small Farming .;. inside back cover 



Wyuna Irrigation Farm ... ... ... ... inside back cover 



Lectures on Agricultural Subjects, 1910 ... ... inside back cover 



Agricultural Classes, 1910 ... ... ... ... inside hack cover 



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