Vol. XIII. [OFFICIAL COPYJ. No. 3. 



^^.Jhe Journal 

 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



JUNE, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



International Ag'ricultural Institute - - ^ - - 129 



Louping'-IU and Braxy . ^ 135 



Report on Railway Rates - - - - - - 142 



Sainfoin Seed. n. Finlayson, F.L.S, - - - - - 147 



Cultivation of Asparagus in Brunswick - - ^ 154 



Insurance of Farming: Stock agrainst Fire - ■ - 159 



Notes on Foreig^n Crop Prospects - - » ^ - 164 



Competitions for Well-managed Cowsheds- - - 165 



A Disease of Young Cattle in Ireland - - 167 



Importation of Horses into Argentina - - - 168 



Live Stock Import Regulations— Transvaal - - 168 



Swedish Margarine Law ^ - 170 



Sussex Poultry Methods. /. Burst ^ - - 172 



Hereford Co-operative Fruit Grading Society ^ - 174 



Peach Leaf Curl - - - - « - 176 



Importation of Plants into Western Australia - - 177 



Destruction of Rats by Virus - - - - 111 



Agricultural Congress at Vienna - - - - - - 178 



Scholarships Awarded by the Surveyors' Institute - - 180 



Forestry Instruction at Armstrong College - - - 1 80 



''Slime-flux" on Beech Trees = - - - — - 181 



Dewponds - - - - . . - . _ - „ . irSi 



Harvest Weather Forecasts - - - - - - - 182 



Weather Forecasts in Prussia - - - ^ - =183 



Miscellaneous Notes and Statistical Tables = - - 184 



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