218 Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [10 April, 1916. 



According to Orchard Supervisor G. M. Fletcher, the " Phenyle 

 Spray " was used in the Goulburn Valley this season against Rutherglen 

 bugs with good results- — 



1 quart phenyle. 

 3 lbs. washing soda. 

 1 bar yellow soap. 

 40 gallons water. 



The soap is shredded and dissolved in hot water. The other ingredients 

 are added, and the mixture made up to 40 gallons. 



{To he continued.) 



A NEW PHOSPHATIC ORE. 



M. B. De Prolliere asserts in a letter to a French contemporary that 

 . he has discovered in one of the departments of France a considerable 

 deposit of a new variety of ore, extremely rich in phosphorus, contain- 

 ing more than 50 per cent. The exact analysis is given as : — Phosphoric 

 acid, 50.10 per cent.; lime, .005 per cent.; silica, 4.75 per cent.; soda, 

 .005 per cent. ; free alumina, 8.30 per cent. ; combined alumina, 22.80 

 per cent.; fluorine, 4.15 per cent.; combined water, 5.60 per cent.; loss, 

 4.79 per cent. The ore was entirely free from potash, iron, and manga- 

 nese. 



An ore of this desicription should render great service to tlie chemical 

 industry for the preparation of phosphorus, phosphoric acid, metallic 

 phosphides, and also for the improvement of the manufacture of phos- 

 phates. 



If it is worth while to extract the phosphorus from bones containing 

 25 per cent., it should be much more advantageous to obtain it from an 

 inexhaustible ore containing 50 per cent. — Extract Journ. Ind. & Eng. 

 Chem., Dec, 1915. 



It is inleresting to note that a chemical company has recently been 

 installed in Victoria to work local phosphatic ore deposits. The 

 operations are in the initial stage, but the main product is to be phos- 

 phatic fertiliser. , 



The wonderful Australian wheat crop, now estimated at 150,000,000 

 bushels, of a money value of £37,000,000, will give heart to those many 

 people in the Commonwealth who have, by reasons of the war, found 

 existence a hard t-truggle. It will convince tliem and the world at large 

 of the splendid country we live in, and that if bad times come they 

 do not last long, and that with good seasons we are capable of an inde- 

 finite expansion. — The Australian Review. 



