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the natural resources of the soil is rendered available; also drought 

 has less effect, and crops are brought to maturity much earlier, 

 besides other advantages which must occur to every practical man. 



3. PHOSPHATES IN VICTORIAN AGRICULTURE. 



By J. W . Paterson and R. R. Scott. {Printed in the " Journal of 

 the Department of Agriculture, Victoria.^') 



4. RECENT RESEARCHES ON SOIL FERTILITY. 



By R. Greig-Srnith, D.Sc, Macleay Bacteriologist to the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales. 

 Note. — This consisted largely of an abstract of several papers 

 published by the author in Proceedings Linnean Society, New 

 South Wales. 



5. THE ADVANTAGES OF ISOLATED AREAS TO 

 AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES. 



By J. Burton Cleland, M.D., Ch.M., Acting Director, Govern- 

 ment Bureau of Microbiology, Sydney, and G. P. Darnell- 

 Smith, B.Sc, F.I.C., Assistant Microbiologist. 



6. CATALYTES AND THEIR RELATION TO CROPS. 



By L. A. Musso, Chemist's Branch, Department of Agriculture, 

 Sydney, New South Wales. 



The literature about the so-called catalytes has become so vast 

 that to gather together all the experiments related to them would 

 make a volume of considerable size. 



On one side we have statements about the presence of some 

 rare elements in a plant, and often to the effect that certain 

 elements are constantly found in some plants. Then we have a 

 considerable number of experiments where the addition of such 

 elements has had a beneficial effect on vegetation, usually by in- 

 creasing the yield, increases that, in some cases, reach a very high 

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