RUST IN WHEAT. 
Mr. W. L. Waterhouse, B.Sc., who has been awarded a W. & E. 
Hall Agricultural Research Fellowship to investigate the problem of 
rust in wheat, has sailed for England with a view to getting into touch 
with English and American workers on the subject. The investigational 
work which Mr. Waterhouse has carried out in New South Wales 
during the past twelve months has been very. encouraging, and has 
thrown a considerable amount of light on the problem; but the stage 
has been reached when it was considered desirable to secure the colla- 
boration:of other workers on the same subject and to gain an insight 
into their methods. Mr. Waterhouse has been for some time in touch 
with the work which is being done in this connexion in the United States 
of America, and has been astonished at the large-amount of attention 
which is being given in that tenets to the rust problem. 
SHEEP-FLY INVESTIGATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 
In connexion with the investigations which are being carried out by 
the Institute.on the Sheep-fly problem, the Committee in New South 
Wales has arranged to resume its field experimental work, which will: 
now be carried out on demonstrational rather than on experimental! 
lines. An area of 10,000 acres in the vicinity of Moree will be marked 
off in sections, and the Committee’s recommendations in regard to the 
use of the Chalcid wasp parasite, trapping flies, and distribution of 
carrion, will be systematically put into operation over the whole area, 
with a view to demonstrating the efficacy of these measures in controlling 
the pest. 
The breeding of the parasites will be carried out at the Glenfield 
Veterinary Research Station, and they will be distributed from there. 
The work ‘on the demonstration. area will consequently be confined to’ 
liberating the parasites and observing the effect, in conjunction with 
destruction by fly-traps over the whole area. In addition, every effort 
will be made to destroy all breeding places in the shape of dead animals. 
At the same time tests-will be made of any further specifics or remedies 
recommended by the Committee. Mr. J. F. Caldwell, a returned soldier, 
has been appointed as officer-in-charge of the field work. 
It is worthy of note that the demand from pastoralists for supplies of. 
Chalcid wasps is well maintained. Very favorable reports of apparently | 
effective work by this parasite continue to be received from various parts 
of Australia, as well as from New Zealand. 
FOREST PRODUCTS IN QUEENSLAND. 
In connexion with a suggestion that Queensland should undertake 
the conversion of waste wood into commercial chemicals, the Queensland 
Minister for Lands (Mr. Coyne) has stated that wood distillation is 
only one of the many lines of development in the Government’s forest 
programme. The Forest Service has had the question of wood distilla-’ 
tion under consideration for some time past, and data are being’ 
accumulated with a view to the initiation of experimental work. Apart 
from distillation products, Mr. Coyne pointed out that the production of: 
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