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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

of Good Hope where the local Government adopted the wise & mutually advantageous plan of imposing  charge on each ship of one pound per registered ton & erecting & scaffolding by which the loading was effected alike with expedition & good order. The guano at this place was found to occupy an area of about six acres, the deposit being of a circular form, rising Conically towards the middle, & from four to eight yards in the thickness.
 
GROWING INJURY OF THE YELLOW LUCERNE
 
This noxious weed commonly called the yellow lucerne, which grows freely in the moist lands where wheat is sown on the lower Hunter is steadily progressing further & further yearly. The flower if this weed possesses so permanent scent that when the wheat which grows around it has been reaped and thrashed the scent is just faintly perceivable in the grain; when the wheat is ground with flour it  becomes quite strong; and when the flour has been made into bread it is so offensive that many persons refuse to eat the bread, imagining it to be bad.
The difficulty is usually met by the millers by mixing the flour with that from other wheat, but it would be better if a growing injury of this kind could be eradicated.
 
STEEP RECOMMENDED FOR SEED WHEAT
 

In various districts in New South Wales Wheat is much infected with Smut, and various remedies have been proposed for the prevention of this evil. The following process, recommended for the seed previous to it being sown is said to have been tried with success. Take one pound each of allum & Copper as ¼ pound Saltpetre & ¼ pound of Verdigris, pulverise the mixture, and disolve [dissolve] it in boiling water, and when cold, add
water sufficient to moisten thoroughly all the seed, which after being mixed will, & turned several times during the ensuing twenty four hours, is is then ready for sowing.
 

 

 

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