TUB AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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Meteorolo gical Returns. 



Meteorological Observations taken for Month of January, 1902. 



TEMPERATURE (Is Fahr. DEGREES). 



STATIONS 



Estcourt 



Nottingham Road ... 



Adamshurst 



Hilton 



Sunday's R.Jndanyana 

 Ixopo (Gtrton) 



Mid Illovo 



Ottawa 



Mount Edgecombe ... 



Cornubia 



Milk wood Kraal 



Blackburn 



Saccharine 



Prospect Hall 



Clairmont 



Equeefa 



Umzinto, Benbva 



RAINFALL (IN INCHES). 



Total 1 



No. 



for 1 



of 



Montli. 



Days. 



5 70 



15 



G-17 



19 



6 4H 



21 



5-70 



23 



600 



10 



2-38 



21 



4 86 



17 



5-4(5 



15 



7 5.5 



17 



G-'j2 





Hi 





5 65 





641 





5-66 





7.39 



16 



4-59 



19 



4-67 



13 



Heaviest rainfall 

 In one daj". 



Fall. I Day 



Total for 

 Year from 

 July 1^1 

 1901. 



Total for 

 same period 

 fi-iim July, 



1st. 131)0. 



115 

 •95 



2 25 

 •H3 



3-46 

 •56 

 ■96 



1.59 



2% 



1 78 

 •91 

 1^06 



2:.th 



20 83 



20 28 





Zi CO 



21 39 



13th 



22 4r 



15 21 



25. h 



24-41 



1857 



25Lh 





8-91 



3rd 



14.'i'7 



30ih 



32 19 



226 



3isi 



2105 



31st 



33 65 



24-57 



33 95 



28-25 





25-43 



17-13 





28 61 



23-39 





3i 55 



25-50 





23- 6 





29th 



.<3 10 



19-95 



30th 



29-.H2 



2(J-27 



3lst 



31-78 



19-59 



Mapstone Oats: Further Re/torts. 



ON the 4th inst., Mr. Thomas Morton 

 Ashley, Howick, wrote: — On Janu- 

 ary 22ncl, 1901, I planted 50fts. of 

 Mapstone oats on an acre of land, but it 

 did not germinate well owing to the seed 

 being of poor quality and cut before ripe. 

 The crop stood all the winter, but was 

 not irrigated. It was cut on 1st Octo- 

 ber, yielding nine bags of seed and two 

 tons oi straw. I may say that 'on the 

 same date, and on land immediately ad- 

 joining to the Mapstone, I sowed Alger- 

 ian seed oats, and got the same results. 

 The Mapstone and Algerian oats I 

 planted are practically the same. 

 1 return SOfts. Mapstone seed. . 



On the 4th inst. Mr. W. P.-Payn, 

 Green Hill, Richmond, wrote: — I am 

 esnding you 2r)lt)s. of seed oats in return 

 for what 1 had from the Richmond Ag- 

 ricultural Society, and received from your 

 department last year. I believe I am 

 the only one that has reaped any seed 

 from these oats. And I am sorry that 

 what I send you is such a poor sample, 

 which is from about 4 cwt. of forage. 

 Although the crop was good as forage" it 

 was very light in seed. The forage had 



a slight attack of rust when young, but 

 was quite clean when reaped. 



On the 8th inst., Mr. R. Douglass, The 

 Barns, Estcourt, wrote: — In the month 

 of March last year your department 

 was kind enough to send me 50lt)s. of 

 Mapstone oats to give it a trial. The 

 seed was very light and poor, but came 

 up well. Not knowing anything about 

 the Mapstone oats, I sowed them too 

 thick. My return from a quarter of an 

 acre was 2461t)S. of oats and 354fts. of 

 straw. This I do not consider very fav- 

 ourable as compared with others who have 

 grown the oats supplied by your depart- 

 ment. The straw was slightly rusted, 

 but nothing to hurt, which was very good 

 feed. I should like to point out that al- 

 though the seed was sown in March, it 

 does not justify its being called a rust re 

 sisting oat. The oat must have a- thor- 

 ough summer trial; that is, sown in De- 

 cember or January. I have again 'sown 

 a ([uantity on the 31st of December, and 

 hope to reap the same about May, when 

 I will be able to send you a report. 1 

 grew some Algerian alongside the 

 Mapstone, which gave me far 

 better results; fully as heavy 



