JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.
An article by David Miller on the gum-tree scale and its control, which heads the contents of the Journal of Agriculture for .January, should prove of special interest to settlers and t tlmrs in districts where this blight has caused trouble. Among the illustrations is a remarkable enlarged photograph of pupae of the ladybird para iic cleaning tip n patch of settles. The much debated question of the inbreeding of live stock is discussed in a nailer hv Edwin Hall. X. It. Fov
contributes a well-illustrated article 01 clover-seeds, describing in particu’lai the economic species. Experiments it the control of black spot disease ol apple and pear are related by L. At Curtis, of the C'awthrcn Institute. Xelson. The important subject ol liming for Westland soils is continued by C. S. Dalglieslt. some striking test? cut tlte heavier lands being recorded. Various methods of rabbit-poisoning with strychnine are given by the Live Stock Division. The series on birds and agriculture J. G. Myers and E. Atkinson) is continued, the current article, dealing with the herons and ducks. A lengthy list of certificates of record issued to purebred dairy cows under test in December is published, with continents by W. M. Singleton. A further instalment is printed of the read v-reckotter for weight of field
crops per acre, compiled by C. H. Schwass. Among tlte regular monthly features, the weather records give the rainfall for the full year 1923 at. representative stations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1924, Page 4
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244JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1924, Page 4
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