JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1923, Page 4

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.

The November issue of the Jorunai of Agriculture opens with another article of K. li. Levy’s grasslands series oil the Taranaki back-count ry. which is typical of much other hilly bush-burnt country in the North Island. The growth-form and habits of secondary-growth iu relation to its control is the special subject dealt with, and the article is generously il--1 list ra U’d. With explanatory photographs. Lamb-breeding for the meat trade, with special reference to the white-faced breeds and crosses of sheep, is the subject of a very practical article by J. (>• (ook. All account of last season’s operations on the I’uewra and Albany experimental areas, by T. If. Patterson. should prove of special interest to settlers in th'p -Northern gum-lands region, whose problems are dealt with at these stations. IT C’. Aston contributes notes on some littoral and otliei soils analysed at the Department's eh.'lineal 'lab-oratory. The now champion Jersey cow of the Dominion Pretty s Flirt —and her record of HUOlb. hitttei'fVit are interestingly commented on |,V \V. M. Singleton. A paper on Filedririiy in Dairy Factories, by < . Vowel I. will he found specially informative l" managers and other dairy technicians. Among otliei articles Die live-stock division premoiH a well illustrated d-scripinn ol a good model for suburban dairies supplying milk for town consumption. The monthly note:-, covering (ipefithuis iu gon.-ra! farming, iru it proving, p-.;ultrv-!'.eei'i" . bee-kef gardening an r, !.d u. a lUi t'-cinl teaeiai.ec An misvetlei: cole- mattci is '‘.n Ulieifl estimate oi Die eurrent. season's lambing inrouglioat the North Island.