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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1901. No, 17. 



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CONTENTS. 



District Reports 

 Agriculture. 



Mapstone Oats 



Paspalum Dilatatum 



„ „ A Glowing Report 



India Rubber. By Anthony Wilkin- 

 son 



Report on Irrigation. By Colonel 



Corbett, R.A. 

 Grazing on Cocksfoot (Illustrated)... 

 Scientific Farming 



Horses. 



The Basuto Pony 



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Dairy. 



Cattle Feeding and Calf Rearing by 



Hand ... ... ... 516 



Annual Dairy Report — Part I. E. 



0. Challis ... ... 527 



Entomology. 



Colorado Beetle. Bj Claude Fuller 514 

 Miscellaneous. 



A Yisit to Rockfontein ... ... 534 



Correspondence. 



Temperatures and Woim Medicines, 



J. H. Coates ... ... 517 



Birds and Young Mealies, A. L. 



Allkins ... ... ... 517 



" Rock " Guano, G. S. D. Otto ... 518 

 Market Reports ... ... 544 



The Colorado Beetle, 



By Claude Fuller, Government Entomologist. 



IT is now many years since there was a 

 general scare throughout all potato 

 growing countries, more particularly iti 

 Great Britian and Europe, on account of 

 the Colorado Beetle. This insect, as its 

 name implies, belongs to the western 

 region of the United States of America, 

 and was discovered there the best part of 

 a century ago. Until 1861 it remained 

 obscure in the remoteness of the Rocky 

 Mountains, when, aided by the extending 



cultivation of the potato, it commenced a 

 destructive progress eastwards, ultimately 

 spreading over the whole of the potato 

 growing area of the Union and into 

 Canada. 



The damage it did at the time gave rise 

 to the greatest fears upon the part of 

 potato growers in various parts of the 

 world, and these fears seem likely to be 

 revived by the recent discovery of the 

 pest at Tilbury Docks, London, feeding 



