THE AGBIGULT 



URAL JOURNAL. 



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were distributed. The individual farmerB 

 mentioned were supplied in response to 

 special applications. 



To Whom Supplied. in lbs.' 



Mooi River Farmers' Assooiation ... 2U0 



Lion's River Agricultuial Society ... 100 



Weenen Agricultural Society ... 200 



Gourton Farmers' Association ... lUO 



Richmond Agricultural Society ... 100 



Nottingham Road Farmers' Association 200 



Umvoti Agricultural Societ , ... 100 



Ixopo Agricultural Society ... ... 100 



New Hanover Agricultural Society ... 100 



Underberg Farmers' Associajiom ... 200 



Pietermaritzburg Agricultural Society... 200 



Polela Agricultural Soc'ety .. ... lUO 



MaltonFarmers' Association . ... 100 



Cape Department of Agriculture ... 50 



Rhodesian Government ... ... 50 



H, D. Hulme ... ... ... 25 



R. Wood ... ... ... 25 



J, B. White ... ... ... 25 



W. P. Grey ... ... ... 25 



F.W.White ... ... ... 25 



Zululand Agricultural Society ... 25 



W, McFie ... ... ... 25 



J. Gordon ... ... ... 25 



Bosto i Farmers' Association... ... 25 



J. Siddons ... ... ... 10 



E. C. Nuss ... ... ... 10 



J. Willson ... ... ... 10 



E. Graban ... ... ... 10 



Camperdown Farmers' Association ... 200 



Klip River Agricultural Association ... 100 



Noodsberg Road Agricultural Association 100 



Lion's River Agricultural Association ... 100 



E. B. GrifiSn ... ... ... 20 



Mapstone Oats at Umlaas Road. 



Copy of letter.] 



Dear Sir, — The Mapstone oats, as I re- 

 ported you some time since, were planted 

 at the end of January. They were planted 

 after potatoes, the ground being heavily 

 dressed with kraal manure (this says a 

 lot for these oats, for, generally speaking, 

 all forage gets the rust when planted 

 with kraal manure ; at least I have always 

 found it so). Alongside of these oats I 

 planted a bag of Algerian on the same 

 date, both being treated alike. The Al- 

 gerian took the rust so badly I had to 

 cut it, bat it has grown again and will 

 make half a crop ; no rust in it now. 



The Mapstone oats stood through the 

 winter and came into full ear before the 

 first rain. No irrigation was used. The 

 fifty pounds of oats I planted very thinly, 

 and spread it over about 1^ acres. T 

 reaped 700 lbs. of seed oats and 4,000 lbs. 

 of straw. I intend experimenting a bit 

 with the oats this season, and shall plant a 



little in October, November, and Decem- 

 ber and the balance in March, without 

 irrigation. January is too late or too 

 early with me, as it would not corn in the 

 winter. 



Yours trnl J , 

 (Sgd.) H. Baker. 



Umlaas Road, 



October 15th, 190 L. 



Paspatunt Dilatatum. 



NOTICE. 



THE Minister of Agriculture would feel 

 obliged if those who have been sup- 

 plied with small quantities of the above 

 seed would be so good as to answer the 

 following questions : — 



1. When did you sow the seed ? 

 2 («) What was the character of the 

 seed bed soil ? (h) was manure used ? [c) 

 if so, of what kind ? 



3. Was the seed bed always moisi from 

 rain or artificial watering, or both ? 



4. How long did the seed take to break 

 through the ground ? 



5. Was the trial of the seed a success or 

 was it not ? 



6. Have you any suggestions to ofEer ? 



Replies may be sent O.H.M.S. to — 

 The Hon. .Vlinister of Agriculture, 

 Maritzburg. 



Locusts in the City. 



ON Saturday, the 12th inst., a rather 

 large swarm of locusts passed over 

 the Citj, travelling from north to south. 

 Not a few of the stragglers found their 

 way into the offices of the Ministry of 

 Agriculture situated on the top floor of 

 the Colonial Buildings. Some of these 

 were collected by the Entomologist and 

 kept under observation, as from their un- 

 natural reddish colour they appeared 

 to be suffering from an attack ot " locust 

 fungus " in an incipient stage. The 

 locusts caught all died between Saturday 

 and Wednesday, during which time the 

 fungus had made its appearance in the 

 form of a sparse coating of velvety hairs 

 upon the underside of the body. 



Sparks, Young & Co , Limited, advertise fresh 

 milk at 3d. per bottle. 



