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The ENGINE TESTS recently held resulted in the Celebrated 
N.S.U. MOTOR CYCLES being FIRST, SECOND, and 
THIRD out of thirteen competitors. This was at the South » 
Australian Automobile Ciub’s Annual Hill Climb, when we 
also secured Fastest Time for the Second Year in succession.” 
This Contest is the Only Motor Cycle Engine Test that has. 
July 1, 1908 
been held in South Australia this year. We can prove this. 
mistake to plant potatoes too soon, and 
_the soil must be in good condition. It is 
also a mistake to put the seed in too 
deeply in the ground, 3in. to 4in. being 
quite deep enough, with Yin. to 12in. apart, | 
and about 24in. between the rows The 
benefit of spraying is fully recognised by 
the German farmers, and is carried out 
systematically. 
Sheep-farming in South Africa 
The treatment of wool end the system 
of management on South African pastoral 
properties is steadily improving, and in 
this the pastoralists of that country have 
found it to their advantage to follow the 
example set by Australian sheepfarmers. 
From a newspaper clipping we gather the 
results of some wool sales. Four clips 
prepared for the market in the Australian 
method realised excellent prices, one 
making a record, while a number of clips 
prepared by farmers sold at rates on an 
average 2d. per lb. less. The shearing 
appears to be generally done by Kafiirs, 
who, to ayoid keing fined for cutting the 
sheep, do not ;oclose to the skin, and 
thus leave a considerable quantity of wocl 
on the sheep. This is estimated at from 
4d. to 14d. per sheep. This serious loss 
has had the effect of causing the majority 
of sheep-farmers to turn their attention 
to machine-shearing, and now many sheds 
are being furnished with machines. 
A good flock of sheep is the most effec- 
tive scavenger that can be placed upon-a 
farm in destroying weeds and saving grass 
Sheep naturally drink little and often, 
an abundant supply of clean water should 
_ far as possible, always be accessible to 
them. : ; a gs bc 
High Land Values. 
Small farms in the Koroit and Warr- 
nambool districts of Victoria have re- 
cently realised the extraordinary prices 
of from’ £100 to £110 per.acre, and £120 
has been refused. These farms are fully 
150 miles from Melbourne. One farmer, 
when asked to explain how he could 
afford to pay such prices, remarked that 
the boys did all the labor, and that if he 
‘put his money to intsrest he would only 
get 34 per cent. Another one said the 
high values he could pay were due to 
growing New Zealand Pinkeye potatoes, 
which he claims gives double the yield of 
other varieties. In further support of 
having paid such yalues, he said there 
were now many ways of making money 
compared with years ago. Farmers could 
sell by-products now which had hitherto 
been of no yalue. It must be romembered 
that these farms are situated in what is 
probably the finest and richest portion of 
the Commonwealth. The greater portion 
of this fertile belt of country is used for 
dairying, and this industry has placed 
the landholders in a very comfortable 
position financially. Rentals for dairying 
land run from 30s. to £2 10s. per acre, 
and much higher prices are demanded — 
where cultivation is practised. 
Sheep crop so closely and go persistently 
that weeds and bushes have little chance 
to grow... Bete 
To make the best mutton the animal 
should be made to grow rapidly and ma- 
ture as early as possible, being kept in 
prime condition as to flesh all the time. 
“The first horse show in England was 
held at Islington, in the Agricultural hall 
in 1864. — ees : 
" 
We have received from Messrs. Hillman 
and Oo., agents. 17 Waymouth street, a 
copy of a plan both novel and useful, a 
plan and a directory in one called the 
Enlarged Numerical Pocket Guide, for 
which the proprietors have received copy- 
right. At a moment’s glance one can 
locate any street in the city of Adelaide ~ 
(south) by a very simple process, so 
simple that a child can understand it. 
And this is not all. If you wish to find 
the number of a house in any street of - 
the clty the Guide will help you: it will 
show you at the corners of all streets the 
number, making it quite easy to deter- 
mine the whereabouts of the number you 
require: The price of the plan is only 
5s. It has no advertisements on it, and 
hence an orn ment rather than as so 
many plans are, a disfigurement on the 
wall. The plan and index are also adapted 
and used in the Numerical Pocket Guide, 
a conyenient size for ones pocket, taste- 
fully got up, providing aleo railway and 
tram time tables, location of various offices 
in Government buildings, to be obtained 
for the small sum of 6d. <A _ veritable- 
companion of travel this for all visitors 
-and trades or business people. Much 
credit is dune to the artist, Mr. C. E, Stamp, 
for the neat design of the cover, which is 
ornamented with beautiful photos of parts 
of the city. Messrs. Bennett Johns, Royal 
Exchange, and Hillman & Co., 7 Way- 
a 
mouth street, are the agents for the pro- 
prietors. We compliment the proprietors 
on the originality of the idea and also on 
the charming get up of the Guide. 
During the last:fourteen days of April — 5 
11,640 head of cattle were landed in L on- 
don and Liverpool from the United'States 
and 1,480 from Oanada. In ‘the same 
received at British ports. 
_ period 33,700.quarters of U.S. beef were 
Pa ac 
