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AND MINING RECORD. 



Vol. IV. 



FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1901. 



No. 2. 



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CONTENTS. 



DiSTRicl Reports 

 Veterinary. 



Departmental Report for January... 

 Agriculture. 



Paspalum Dilatatum. — By J. Medley 

 . Wood 



Mealie Blight — Another Form.— By 



Claude Fuller 

 Utilisation of corn stalks 

 Analysis of certain Fertilisers 

 Bonedust, about 

 Cattle. 



Shorthorn and Devon Reports for 

 1900 



Bulls and Bull Buyers ... 

 Selling by Live Weight ... 

 Horses. 



Shoes and Shoeing 



To make a horse lie down 



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Dairy. 



Dairying in New South Wales 

 Pigs. 



Rape for Young Pigs 



Miscbllaneous. 



Farmers' Accounts. — By Arthur 



Barnett 



Co-operative Banking in Hungary... 

 Industrial Australia. — Hon. F. R. 



Moor's Impressions 



Correspondence. 



Horse Breeding — C. B. Lloyd 

 Cape Berries Bursting — G. 



Wilkinson 

 Wattle Ash for Tobacco— J. M. van 



Leenholf ... 



Composition of Sunflower — James 



Thorrold ... 

 Market Reports 



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Paspalum 



ALREADY 



MR. J. MEDLEY WOOD, the Curator 

 of the Botanical Gardens, Durban, 

 being the leading and, indeed, the sole 

 authority on the grasses of Natal, was 

 asked last week to be good enough to 

 give what information he might possess 

 as to jjaspalum dihUatum for publication 

 in the Journal. 



In the course of the conversation Mr. 

 Wood stated that he had read with much 

 interest what the Hon. F. R. Moor had to 

 say with regard to the agricultural value 

 of pasjjakim dilatatum because he him- 

 self felt sure that the grass would thrive 

 in Natal — certainly on the upper portions, 

 and very possibly along the Coast also. 



Dilatatum. 



IN NATAL. 



" In 1897," continued Mr. Wood, " I 

 was the first to discover paspaliim dilata- 

 tum in Natal. I was on a botanising tour 

 in the northern districts, and one day 

 while in Newcastle my attention was at- 

 tracted by a small patch of grass un- 

 familiar to me growing in a fenced in, 

 but unoccupied, erf. I secured a specimen. 

 At first I took it to be paspalum scrohi- 

 culatum, a noxious plant, when in seed, 

 for cattle ; but finding differences on 

 microscopic examination, I sent it to Kew 

 for determination. The reply was : ' The 

 specimen is very probably paspalum dila- 

 tatum. Pair. It agrees at least with cul- 

 tivated specimens named thus in Gay's 



