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THE AOBIGVLTUBAL JOURNAL. 



RETURN OF FARMS AT PRESENT UNDER LICENSE FOR DIS^^^lS^W 



^TOGK—icontv.'ued). 



Stock Inspector. District. 



W. A. Hutchinson 

 W. Gray 



E, Varty 



B. C. Shooter 



G.N. Perfect 



Alfred 



Upper Tugela. S. 

 of Tugela River 

 & Estcourt, N. of 

 Bushman's River 



Umvoti — Western 

 Portion 



Alexandra 



Umvoti — Eastern 

 Portion 



Disease. 



Scab 

 » 



Lungsickness 



)) 

 )» 



Scab 



Lungsickness 

 Scab 



Owner. 



G. Whitelaw 

 W. Stafford 

 Nqubu 

 Faku 



A. C. Beyers & Sons 

 A. P. Vandermerwe 

 J.R. Vandermerwe 

 T. J. & O.M.Botha 



H. Reynolds 

 Umjanie 



L. j. Nel 

 J. A. Nel 



Farm. 



Daetnount. 



Sutherland.. „. 



Location. 



Mount Alice. 



Doveton. 



Poortje. 



Noodhulp.., 



Welverdien't. 



Inyangweni. 



Pasture. 



Welgegund. 



The whole of that portion of the Colony north of the Tugela River has been proclaimed by the 

 Governor an infected area under the Lungsickness Act. 



M. J. HIME, 



for P. V. Surgeen. 



Principal Veterinary Surgeon's Office, 

 27th March, 1901. 



The Utilisation of Gorn Stallfs. 



IT lias probal)ly never occurred to the 

 farmer wlio has been throwing corn 

 stalks away as waste for ages that these 

 would ever be put to profitable use. 

 Nevertheless, such is the case, as will be 

 demonstrated upon the completion of the 

 third cellulose plant in the United States, 

 and the second largest in the world, now 

 being constructed at Linden, Indiana. 

 Over £20,000 has been expended in the 

 mechanical equipment, and when in full 

 operation the plant will employ 100 men. 

 Then the apparently useless corn pith will 

 be put on the market as a protection for 

 battleships of all nations, as a smokeless 

 powder, dynamite, and other higli ex- 

 plosives ; as varnish, kodak films, car-box 

 packing filler, waterproof cloth, linoleum, 

 fine art paper, imitation silk, patent 

 leather finish, face powder, silicate pack- 

 ing, and endless other, as various forms of 

 which the farmer, or even a more scien- 

 tifically inclined person never dared to 

 dream. 



The phrnt now in construction at Lin- 

 den includes all of the plant which has 

 been operated at Rockville, 111., to which 

 has been added enough to make the new 

 twice as large as the old concern. Both 

 of the other plants in the United States 

 are owned by the sanie concern — namely, 

 the Marsden Co., a fifty-million dollar 

 rhiladelphia syndicate, which controls all 

 the patents covering the processes. They 

 are located at Owensborough, Ky., and 

 West Point, Va. The former plant will 

 probably be erected this year at Peoria, 

 111. It is estmated that over 16,000,000 

 tons of corn stalks have annually been 

 going to waste, and the successful at- 

 tempts of this trust to rescue this waste 

 makes stalks worth 18s. Gd. per ton, and 

 thus in the next twenty years will in- 

 crease the income of farms £5,000,000 

 by producing cellulose, dynamite, 

 glue, cardboard, paper, and many other 

 saleable products. In this may be found 

 an extenuating argument in favour of one 



