GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 503, 10 May 1909, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

_ Tho Tasmanian Government has decided to import 20 humble bees for the, purpose of fertilising rod-clover. '-..•■'. , ... : • In vie\\\ of'the sproposed. establishment,of; firison famis,. and the previously suggested abourfarms in Now Zealand,it is interesting to'note that the Victorian Minister for Public Works (Mr. BailliouV who recently visited the Now South Wales labour colonies,' states that he was greatly impressed with what ho saw, and he'intended to bring before his Cabinet the question of adopting some,,at least, of the methods he noted for' dealing with-thei unemployedsproblem,' but on improved lines." ' Ho however that the men should; bo put on tho best land, available, bo that they'might,-as rapidly as possible, see. the fruits of their labour, arid thus'be encouraged to qualify as occupiers of small holdings. .No doubt tho.system" under which the proposed prison farms in' New Zealand would be managed would in.some -ways resemble that' 'of 'tho' Australian labour colonies. ... ■':■ ■-.'-, , : :. .'; ■'•.'-. ■ . , ;"• . Mr.- C. F." French,:- assistant -.Government entomologist of Victoria, has received a letter from Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the United States Bureau, of Entomology,; Washington, stating that so far as ho is aware there.are no recorded pases of eating-, apples Having been poisoned,by-spraying with'arsenical pr'e■parations., • That- could,'only, happen r from spraying just boforo the fruit was gathered, a course which he had never known any occasion 'for..-'-''' , ';■',.--■. ':'••', A : -'■ '..-,i ■