March, 1910 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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ADELAIDE SHOW. 
EXHIBITION BUILDINGS 
and GROUNDS. — 
Mareh 3, 4 & 5, 1910. 
Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables on view. 
Horses in Action. 
_ Poultry and Wool. 
Show and Concert, Thursday and Friday Nights. 
Admission, ONE SHILLING. 
STOMACH STAGGEPS. 
‘Shepherd,’ Brnkworth —The com- 
plaint shich effected your sheep is com- 
_monly called ‘stomach staggers,’ and is 
really a temporary apoplic condition of 
the brain, due to the stomach disturbance. 
Dry, indigestible fodder, fat condition of 
‘the sheep, and the driving are the causes. 
Tt is not of much practical value to 
attempt treatment when the sheep are 
attacked on the road ; and, indeed, harm- 
ful results may follow attempts to drench 
them during the attacks. Prevention by 
more careful handling, and avoidance of 
undue harassing by dogs, would minimise 
therisk. Ifin very high condition, the 
‘sheep might be put on barre paddocks for 
a day or two before driving. 
EDITORIAL. 
AN old song became popular because 
idea that “a policeman’s lot was not a 
happy one.” It might easily be altered 
to suit the producer on occasions when 
of the refrain which caught the 
after a year’s anxious toil and worry and 
planning and scheming he finds a con- 
tinuous rain for days ruins him. In the 
districts where grows the luscious fruit 
of the vine the recent rain has practi- 
cally ruined the crops as they hung on 
the vines. Even in the dry regions of 
the River Murray, where picking and 
drying had commenced, the rain stopped 
the process, and where suflicient housing 
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JAS. RILEY, Secretary. 
accommodation was not available the 
fruit was moulded in the trays, Such 
loss is disheartening to the producer, and 
one can readily imagine the sense of 
chagrin at his watching the beautiful 
fruit almost within the garnering boxes 
absolutely wasted. All he could do was 
to stand around and watch it waste 
Such experiences bring about a loss of 
faith on the ‘part of capitalists in risking 
their money in producing. No surprise 
need be felt at that, but it is a great 
pity, because the producer has many 
initial difficulties to contend against both 
in work and money arrangements, If 
the capitalist, generally the banker, loses 
faith under the stress of calamity brought 
about by the fickleness of climatic c)n- 
ditions, then the worker loses heart, and 
producing wealth first hand from mother 
earth receives a check which is difficult 
to recover. There is always a great 
source of satisfaction in the knowledge 
that producers have strong big hearts— 
even if at times their pockets are lean. 
It is indeed astonishing to see men start 
away to work after a ruinous conflict 
with nature just as if nothing had 
happened, with a sort of hopeless philoso- 
phy better luck next time. And so the 
world wags on, being fed by the men 
who toil and struggle with nature in her 
primal producing capacity. 
A visit to the Royal Show in Adelaide 
anda tour of the Shows that are nov 
being held all over the country would 
convince the worst cynic that the pro- 
ducing power under man’s labor, skill, 
and brains is not only a great reward 
after disappointments, but is also a great 
triumph, of which he may be justly 
proud, 
No one need starve on an acre of 
ground and plenty of water. When the 
discussion was going on years ago during 
‘the beginning of the closer settlement 
and wérkmen’s lots it became a famous 
saying that three acres and a cow would 
bring up a family. The bringing up 
would, under such conditions, be rather 
a drag, but there is no doubt they could 
keep alive. The argument from that is 
- with a greater proportion of land and 
cows a very fair living can be obtained— 
with an equal proportion of toil, Any- 
-how, in spite of ruinous disappointments 
and battlings against adversities, there is 
a fascination about the land and all its 
possibilities that keep men there, and it 
is well that it should be so for all kinds 
of reasons. 
Sooty or fly-speck fungus has made its 
appearance in some of the large orchards 
near Sydney. It greatly disfigures the 
fruit. Asarule this disease occurs in 
low-lying orchards, and attacks most 
varieties of fruit. It is controlled by 
spraying with Bordeaux at the first sign 
of its appearance. It may not display 
itself till the fruit has been picked, and 
placed in a cool storage. Then deteri- 
oration is rapid. It is said that this is 
the first time that the fruit in this district 
has been so attacked. One authority 
inclines to the belief, however, that it 
has existed for some years. but dry seasons 
were unfavorable to its development. The 
present season has been the wettest for 
20 years. 
M. L. Tomlinson, 
(LATE J. G. ORAM), 
Manufacturing Jeweller, 
Watchmaker, - 
Diamond Setter & Engraver. 
Repairs to Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery 
of every description accurately, artistically 
and promptly executed at moderate prices. 
27 Grenfell St., Adelaide. 
