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Export of Eggs front South Australia to England. — A trial shipment of eggs was 

 made in 1906 from South Australia to this country. The eggs, which were carried in 

 a cool chamber, arrived in good condition and were disposed of at the average price 

 of \od. per dozen for fertile and is. id. per dozen for guaranteed infertile eggs. The 

 Department expects to arrange for four or five shipments next season, commencing 

 about September and continuing till December. — {Journal of Department of Agricul- 

 ture of South Australia, January, 1907.) 



Tests for Farmers' Milk in Glamorgan. — An arrangement has now been concluded 

 between the County Council and the University College, Cardiff, whereby 

 Dr. D. R. Abell, the Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry at the 

 College, will undertake to test milk for the percentage of butter-fat for farmers in the 

 Administrative County of ( Glamorgan on payment of a fee of 6d. to the College for each 

 sample tested. (See Leaflet No. 146.) 



Mr. R. H. Elliot Cs Demonstration Farm at Clifton. — The Board are informed 

 that the demonstration farm established at Clifton-on-Bowmont, near Kelso, by 

 Mr. R. H. Elliott is at all times open for inspection by farmers and others who may 

 be desirous of inspecting Mr. Elliott's system of agriculture. It will be remembered 

 that Mr. Elliott advocates the use of certain grass mixtures containing deep-rooting 

 plants, and at Clifton an opportunity is afforded of seeing the results obtained. 

 A description of the method appeared in this Journal for December, 1901, 

 (" Cultivation by the Use of Deep-rooting Plants"), while in the issue for November, 

 1905, (p. 456), the results are given of some experiments with the mixtures at 

 Abbotsley, Hunts. 



Use of Separated Milk and Starch for Calf-Feeding. — The use of separated milk, 

 with the addition of starch to take the place of the fat removed from the milk, is being 

 adopted on the Continent for calf-feeding. (See Journal, July, 1906, p. 238 ; 

 "Fattening Calves in Belgium.") A preparation for converting starch into 

 sugar, which' has been tried with success at the Agricultural Academy at Bonn- 

 Poppelsdorf, was described by Dr. Hansen at a meeting of the German Dairy Society. 

 (Deutsche Land. Presse, 20th March, 1907). This preparation, known as 

 " Diastolin," is a form of diastase, a substance existing in barley and oats after 

 germination, and possessing the property of breaking up the starch and converting it 

 Into sugar. This is added to a paste made of potato starch, or to wheat, rye, or 

 OBtmeal at a temperature of about 120 0 F. in a proportion of 10 per cent., and about 

 half-a-pint of this mixture used to every pint of skim milk. Calves were found to 

 thrive very well indeed on this food, and in every respect much more satisfactory 

 results seem to have been obtained than by the employment of pure starch. 



Demand for Agricultural Machinery in Russia. — Mr. Consul-General Murray, 

 in his report to the Foreign Office on the trade of Poland for 1906 (No. 3,745), 

 States that the import of agricultural machinery, especially steam threshers, which are 

 chiefly of British origin, increased considerably, but several of the principal British 

 makers were so busy that they were unable to accept orders for prompt delivery. The 

 demand for combined cl 1 ill- to sow grain and distribute artificial manure simultaneously 

 is on the increase. A machine of British invention and make for thinning beet will 

 probably find a demand ijext year. The agricultural societies, who are the largest 

 buyers of foreign agricultural machinery, are of opinion that British makers of agricul- 

 tural machinery, are, as a rule, badly represented in Poland. 



Horticultural Exhibition at Dresden. — An International Horticultural Exhibition 

 will be held at Dresden from 4th to I2th May next, under the auspices of the Saxon 

 Government. It will include garden and hot-house plants, fruit and fruit-trees, and 

 other branches of horticulture, and will, it is believed, atfoid u pi cm ntative examples 



of ( KTinan gardening. 



German Agricultural Society's Show at Dusseldorf. — The Show of the German 

 Agricultural Society for 1907 will be held at Dusseldorf on the Rhine from Thursdiji 



