To Help Planters
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New Guinea Agricultural Gazette
* ’HE first issue of the New Guinea Agricultural Gazette is to hand.
The purpose of this excellent publica tion is to make known to planters in New Guinea the results of the experimental and demonstration work carried out by the New Guinea Department of Agricul ture. This development is long overdue.
The Department of Agriculture, through its plantation at Keravat and its work on plantations throughout the territory, has a splendid record of service, and its full value has not been available in the past because it was not able to tell in dividual planters just what it was doing and what it had accomplished.
The principal articles in the first issue are: “Peanuts as a Crop in New Guinea,” by George H. Murray; “The Long-horned Treehopper of Coconuts,” by John L.
Froggatt; “Derris—lts Cultural and Eco nomic Possibilities,” by R. E. P. Dwyer; “Preparation of New Guinea Cocoa for Market,” by E. C. D. Green; “Eucalyptus Naudiniana,” by C. C. Marr; and “Meteor ology,” by B. G. Challis.
If this journal maintains the standard of its first issue it will be invaluable to the planters of New Guinea.