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Journal of Agricvlture, Vidoiia. [10 March, 1919. 



Rainfall at Wekkibee. 



Water-logging aud drying out of the soil tends to the development of 

 •' Take all," and the weather conditions last season were such as to 

 encourage its spread. The rainfall at the State Research Farm for 

 1918 was as follows: — 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



October 



l^ovember 



December 



Total 



Inches. 

 .50 

 .70 

 3.80 



.74 

 2.12 

 1.69 

 1.82 

 2.90 

 2.21 

 2.10 



.38 

 1.00 



19.96 



It will therefore be seen that during the wheat-growing period the 

 rainfall was favorable except during the month of November. 



CORRECTION. 



BOTTLING OF FRUIT. 



In Miss Knight's article on the Bottling of Fruit for Home Use, 

 published in the Journal of Agriculture for December last, in describing 

 an old way of preserving fruit, a passage read (pages 724-5) : — 



" The fruit should bo ... . packed into jars and each filled 

 with cold syrup, and the lid put tightly on." 



The use of the word " tightly " was due to a typographical error, and 

 should have been printed lightly. 



