THE JOUKInAL 



OF 



TPIE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A. T. SHARP, Editor. 



CONTENTS.— AUGUST, 1910. 



PAOK. 



The Stud Horse Industry .. ... ... ... ... S. S. Cameron 485 



The Ovens River Valley ... ... ... ... ... A. J. Ewart 503 



The Potato Eel-wonn {continued) ... ... ... ... IT. Laidlaw 508 



A Successful Dairy Farmer ... ... ... ... J. M. B. Connor 512 



Artificial Manures Acts — 



Analyses of Samples of Manures Collected in the State ... P. R. Scott 519 

 The Fruit Export Trade to the United Kingdom and Europe 



E. Mcekhuj and U. T. Booth 520 



The Wool Industry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .')-24 



Building Hints for Settlers — 



IX. Farm Plumbing — Selection of Tools ... ... G.H. Wrhjht 526 



X. Sheep Dips ... ... ... ... ... A.S.Kcnyon 530 



Sheep D'np'ping [coiitinued) ... ... ... ... ... H. W. Ham 540 



Orchard and Oarden Notes ... ... ... ... E. E. Pe-scott 544 



Answers to Correspondents ... ... ... ... ... .. 545 



Statistics — Quarter ending 30th .June, 1010 — 



Rainfall in Victoria ... . ... ... ... //.A. Hunt 548 



Journal of Agriculture — Copyright Provisions and Subscription Rates in-side front cover 



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



Works by the late Baron Ferd. von Mueller — Revised Price List inside bach cover 



The Smid.s of Aii-stralia ... ... ... ... ... ... back cover 



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