THE JOURNAL 



OF 



THE DEPART MENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A. T. SHARP, Editor. 



CONTENTS.— MAY, 1910. 



PAOB. 



Wheat Improvement Committee — 



I. — Experimental Work at Longerenong Agricultural Col- 

 lege, 1909-10 ... ... ... ... ... J. T. Pridham '27S 



II. — Rust and Smut Resistance in Wheat and Smut 



Experiments with Oats and Maize ... ... B. McAlpine 284 



The Smut of Maize and its Treatment ... ... ... D. McAlpine 290 



A Pioneer Maize Crop in the Wimmera ... ... ... /. 31. B. Connor 299 



Lang Lang Fodder Crop Competition ... ... ... J. S. McFadzemi 302 



Yield of Reconstituted Vineyard at the Rutherglen Viticultural 



College: Vintage 1910 ... ... ... ... G. H. Adcock 306 



The Wiue Industry in Southern France (continued) ... F. de Castella 311 

 Orchard Studies — 



IL— The Laterals of Apple Trees ... ... ... E. E. Pescott 321 



Orchard and Garden Notes ... ... ... ... E. E. Pescott 324 



Artificial Manures Acts — 



Analyses of Samples of Manures collected in the State ... P. R. Scott 327 



Hereditary Unsoundness in Horses ... ... ... .f?. iS'. Cameron 328 



Maize and Lucerne in Western District ... ... ... A. W. Fisher 348 



Answers to Correspondents ... .. ... ... 351 



Journal of Agriculture — Copyright Provisions and Subscription Rates inside Jront cover 



Publications issued by the Department of Agriculture ... inside front cover 

 Agricultural Education in Victoria — 



Uookie Agricultural College ... ... ... ... inside back cover 



Longerenong Agricultural College ... ... ... inside back cover 



Burnley School of Agriculture and Small Farming ... inside hack cover 



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



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



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



Weeds, Poison Plants, and Naturalized Aliens of Victoria ... hack cover 



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