TABLE OF CONTENTS

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 79, Issue 6, 15 December 1949, Page 529

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Departmental Service to Horticulture Industry 531 Care of Livestock during January 532 Seed Production in New Zealand: Grass and Clover Seed Certification J. H. Claridge 533 The Home Garden S. O. Gillard 539 Dairy Produce Graded for Export 544 Use of Electric Fence in Feeding off Saved Pastures J. M. Hopkins 545 Applying the Principles of Poultry Breeding F. C. Bobby 547 Farming Methods on the Danthonia Hills of Hawkes Bay R. P. Hill 551 Improvement of Bee Stocks in New Zealand T. S. Winter 553 Harvesting and Marketing Cut Flowers C. G. Aldridge 555 Poultry Diseases Caused by Mould and Yeast Infections R. M. Salisbury 558 Pre-lambing Shearing of Ewes G. R. Mackintosh 559 Establishment of Paspalum: Lupin Varieties 561 The Green Vegetable Bug Nezara viridula R. A. Cumber 563 Care of Pigs During Summer I. H. Owtram 565 The Production of Pasture Seed in Canterbury J. G. Slater 569 The Use of Reinforcing and Boxing in Preparing Concrete H. T. W. Eggers 571 Household Poultry W. L. Mclver 577 Hydraulically-operated Glasshouse Ventilators J. A. Cederman 583 Home-made Potato Bagger A. J. Ebert 585 Show Dates 586 Patents for Inventions Connected with Farming Activities F. C. Korrick 587 Grading Points for Export Butter and Cheese 588 Prevention of Pig Losses on the Farm 589 Domestic Beekeeping R. Goddard 595 The Flower Garden M. J. Barnett 597 Meteorological Records for October 602 The Role of Play in Children's Lives Dorothy Johnson 603 Party Savouries Norma K. Metson 607 A Smocked Summer Frock for a Small Girl Eva Topping 611 The Museums of New Zealand Enid B. V. Phillips 615 Strawberries are Ripe Again ... Eva Topping 619 Volume Index 623 SUBSCRIPTION RATES The “Journal” is issued monthly. The subscription within New Zealand is 2s. 6d. a year; the overseas subscription is 5s. The “Journal” may be ordered from any bookseller or newsagent, or direct from any office of the Department of Agriculture. Individual copies are available at 3d. a copy, post free. COPYRIGHT PROVISIONS The articles in the “Journal” of the Department of Agriculture of New Zealand are copyright. Proprietors of newspapers and periodicals wishing to republish matter are at liberty to do so, provided both the “Journal” and author are acknowledged. The Minister of Agriculture does not accept responsibility for any of the private and trade advertisements included in this publication. All correspondence relating to the “Journal” should be addressed to the Editor, “The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture,” Box 3004, Wellington. , REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O., WELLINGTON, AS A MAGAZINE.