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news that was published recently that 
potatoes were being sold at the famine 
price of £25atonin the West is the 
kind of whip that is neeeded to scourge 
men on to do their comuion duty of 
cleanliness. 
Auy ordinary grower of 
potatoes can tell at a glance whether his 
seed potatoes are clean 
disease. 
and fres from 
But when he happens to he 
careless in the matter, which is too often 
the case, he would rather run the risk of 
a diseased crop than throw out his seed 
potatoes. 
Received. 
Desrructive Insects oF VICTOBIA.— 
We wish to acknowledge the receipt of a 
splendidly produced hand-book on the 
above—or rather Part 1V on that sub- 
ject. Itis written by Mr. C. French, 
F.LS., F.E.S., Government Entomologist 
and contains beautifully coloured plates 
of the following insects:—Fruit Flies 
Wattle Scale, Apple-Tree Destroyer, Com- 
mon Bean Butterfly, Huebner’s Case 
Moth, Holy Bug, Dark Spotted Swift 
Moth, Green Hanging Moth of the 
Apple, Elephant Beetle, Orange and Fig 
Tree Borer, Dark Green (Grass Cater- 
pillar, Apple Gum Bimia, Lesser Wood 
Case Moth, Pinara Grub of the Apple, Red 
Gum Tree Weevil, Bot Fly, and Mottled 
Cup Moths In addition to the illus- 
trations a full description of each insect 
and its habits is given, together with 
notes on the methods of its prevention 
and exterpation—a work which should 
_ prove invaluable to the Australian fruit- 
grower. Ornithology, too, 
prominent place in this handy little 
volume, beautiful colored plates of 
Masked Wood Swallows, Babblers. Nar- 
keen Kestrels, Magpie Larks, Owlet 
‘has a 
Belting, 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
Nightjars, White Throated Thickheads 
Flame-Breasted Robins, 
Shrike Thrushes, Welcome S waliows, Blue 
Yellow-Rumped Tomtits, Aus- 
and White-Browed 
Babblers having been produced, aud the 
Harmonions 
Wrens, 
tralian Bee Eaters, 
economic study of birds, both injurious 
and useful, will no doubt prove of great 
value to those engaged in rural pur- 
ruits. The publication also contains 
much other useful matter for entomolo 
gists and practical orchardists. 
A Test Election. 
On page 39 of this issue will be found 
a ballot slip which is inserted at the re- 
yuest cf the Effective Voting League of 
South Australia. The object is to 
demonstrate to the electors of the State 
the ease with which an election can be 
conducted under the proposed system, the 
simplicity and practicability of which 
were so amply demonstrated in the recent 
General Election in Tasmania. A glance 
at the ballot slip will show that twelve 
candidates are supposed to have been 
nominated for a district returning six 
representatives to Parliament. There are 
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now four recognised political parties 10 
the State—Australian National League 
Labor Party, Farmers and Producer's 
Political and Liberal and 
Democratic Union, and each of thesé 
parties has the nunes of three of its most 
Union, 
prominent men inserted on the ballot 
paper. Our readers are invited to cut 
out the ballot slip and fi}l in (in the blank 
space before each name) the order of 
their choice or preference—that is, t0 
place the figure 1 against the name of the 
candidate they like best, 2 against the on@ 
they like next, 3 against the next, and 5° 
on for the whole twelve, always remem 
bering that they can vote for as few or 48 
many as they desire, and that a ballot 
paper will be invalid if the same figure be 
inserted more than once on the paper. 
Having filled in the slip it is then to be 
posted not later than Thursday next, 
September 2, addressed : Effective Voting 
League, Box 504, G.P.O. 
The counting of the votes will begi? 
at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 3, at the 
Exchange Room, Town Hall, Adelaide 
and will be open to the public. The re- 
sults will be published in all the news: 
papers in which the ballot slip 
appears. For the convenience of county 
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