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AND MINING RECORD. 



Vol. IV. FREDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1901. No. 19. 



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CONTENTS. 



PAOE. 



District Reports ... ... 579 



Veterinary. 



Rinderpest Symptoms. Bj' H. 



Watkins-Pitchford ... ... 577 



Rinderpest Notices ... ... 582 



Agriculture. 



Paspalum Dilatatum Propagation ... 579 

 Interview with P. D. Simmons. By 



Ergates ... ... ... .585 



Potatoes in Hot Climates ... 588 

 Agricu tural Chemis ry for Be- 

 ginners : By Archd. Pearce ... 589 

 Banana Fibre... ... ... 592 



Mealie Trials : By Bruce Hutchinson 594 



page. 



Agriculture. 



Lucerne Ensilage ... ... 602 



Culture and Manuring of Mealies : 



ByAlex. Pardy ... ... 604 



Paspalum Dilatatum Criticised ... 607 



Dairy. 



Milk as a Feeding Stuff ... ... 601 



Poultry. 



In-Broeding ... ... ... 590 



Misct'.laneous. 



Australian Timber Trees, Notes on... GOO 

 A Safe Gate Fastener (Illustrated) 603 



Correspondence 



Diseased Vines. James Thorrold ... 583 

 Horse Worms. J. H. Coates ... 584 



Market Reports ... ... 608 



Rinderpest Sympiomsm 



By H. WaTkins-Pitchford, F.R.C.V.S. 



IN view of the approach of rinderpest, 

 and in response to several enquiries 

 lately received as to the appearances of 

 the disease, a short detail of the symptoms 

 will not be out of place, and may possibly 

 help to ensure that promp recognition 

 which means eo much in our efforts to- 

 wards combating this devastating malady. 



With the knowledge that rinderpest is 

 actually within the Colony, an increased 

 vigilance will be exercised by the cattle 

 owner, who well recognises from past 



dearly-bought experience the ey:'atic and 

 sudden manner in which the disease 

 manifests itself in unlooked-for places. 

 What the agencies are by which the 

 disease is disseminated we remain still in 

 ignorance, and it is but rarely that we are 

 able to trace an outbreak of this disease 

 to its source. 



Probably the first symptom attracting 

 notice would be one animal in the herd 

 obviously ill, standing with arched back 

 and ruftied coat, moving and feeding in a 



