THE JOURNAL 



OF 



THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



lO jVI^RCH, 1910. 



CONTENTS 



Results of Continuous Wheat Experiments ... 



The Advantages of Subdivision of Estates 



Bacchus Marsh Farm Competition, lf)09 



A Deceptive Cow ... 



Bee Mortality 



Vinegar from Apples ... ... ,.. 



Home-made Vinegar 

 Orchard Studies — 



I. — Green Manuring ... 

 Orchard and (Inrden iS'otes 

 The Onion Eel-worm 

 An Abnormal 8ix-rowed Barley 

 The Supply of Butter Boxes 

 Irrigation of Lucerne 

 Insectivorous Birds of Victoria — 



The Bronze Cuckoo 

 Prickly Pear 

 Answers to Correspondents 



Journal of Agriruftm-e — Copyright Provisions and Subscription 

 Publications issued by the department of Agriculture 

 Agricultural Education in Victoria — 



Dookie Agricultural College 



Longerenong Agricultural College 



Burnley School of Agriculture and Small Farming 



Wyuna Irrigation Farm 



Lectures on .Agricultural Subjects, 1910 



Agricultural Classes, 1910 

 Weeds, Poi>ion Phmtn, and Naturalized Aliens of Victoria 



F. E. Lee 



J. S. McFadzean 

 A. V. Berher 



It. Bfuhne 



F.deCnMella 



B. Fallot 



E. E. Pescott 



E. E. Pescott 



W. Laidlaiv and C. A. Price 



A. J. Eirart 



R. V. Billis 



E. Mead 



C. French, jun. 

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