JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1923, Page 1

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.

The lending feature of the Journal of Agriculture for May is an article hv Mr K 1!. Levy on the all important subject of |rrnF?--Pe<l mixtures for various soils and conditions. The writer details the duration of the many grasses, clovers ami other pasture plants on the different grassland soils, and then tabulates grass-seed mixtures for each type or sub-typo of soil. In all sixtyfive different mixtures are given, the matter heing perhaps handled in a more comprehensive manner than ever before. A complete list of herd-testing associations operating in the Dominion for the 102*2-23 season, together with the number of cows under test in each case i minted under Mr AV. Al. Smgleton's name. This is the first time Mi h information lias I eon eompiled and pnoljMied in full, and it is of special -,e no as indicating the progress of tin* >nn'.eiiK lit. in various l arts ol tlu> Dominion. Mr B. (V Aston - annual review of flic importation of fertilizers into the Dominion is a regular yearly _ mature of the Journal which in this issue well maintains its usual interest. An other article appears of the senes on the Relation of Birds to Agriculture in \ew Zealand, dealing with the buds ol ‘the forest. Mr H. Alyers has the collahoratiov. of Afr K. Atk.n-on on tins occasion. Among other articles "le those on Liming for AYestJnm! Nuts (Air C. S. DalglieslO. Ma'mrial hspenincuts in Canterl.nry (Air T*. I'.. «» •> • !lll( l Control of Proprietary Mock Vends. M iseelhi neon- include the constitution and rules ol the recently formed New Zealand In-tuute of Horticulture. The usual monthly “Seasonal Notes.”. AVeather heoorcts. etc. complete the issue.