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CLE ANINGS. 1 HIGHER WAGES AND SHORTER I HOURS. The Farmer and Stockbreeder is concerned regarding the movement for higher wages all, shorter hours, and, at the close oi an editorial of. the suble", says it is of the greatest- unport- ance to the country that agrieuitura* labour should be Weil paid, and that the skilled men should be retained on the land. At the same Lime it ja not right- tJ fopse a policy upon ioxwui* without adequate guarantees. This problem may well exercise the best brains in agriculture; and we urge thlllt. the Royal Agricultural Society should closely scrutine this qu,rioa and 'eii- deavour as far as possible to protect the farm- ex's interest. We clearly foresee under the > sent irregular system of mopping. that all man- iner of difficulties will arise in attempting to assess the increased cost oi production due to the riae in wages, say on the price of wheat, and is becomes a yet more difficult 'problem "when the dependance of one crop upon another i in the rotation ha-s necessarily to be considered. W3 suggest thai thõ Royal Agricultural Society atprr-ni a special committee to consider tins j matter. ¡ A "CLODHOPPER'S" REIWT -oiL.. The other day (says the Mark Lane kx- pfeiH ") we came across one of those iio-uaitue instances of modesty and bravery wfich the ■war has made so numerous, that they (10 nil'" attract the notice they deserve. The ad was back at the remote village that he had rever le*- until he joined the Army. He called to set the farmer for whom he had worked eii.ce he itrffc school, but his name h&d appeareu in I papers, for ho had won the D.C.M. ISa-air- j ally, his old employer, who hopes to have the I hd back when the war is over, wanted to icnow all aboiL.D i- but the soldier was more anxious to tallc about the farm and what had happened on it since he went away. At. lat m simple words the lad described the bombing party that went out, the few, including himseif, who re- turned, the officer lair. badly wounded near the enemy trenches, Ajvi hi.s own journey over No Man's Land after dark to bring- him in. After four hours and hairbreadth escapes ne succf eri- ( ed. and tho exhausted soldier and wounded officer fell over the parapet of the tretsc-iies to- wether. This brcive act was rewarded by the D.C.M.. but the lad didn't seem to think there was anything wonderful about it. He^ was ,foud of his officer, who had been good to him; that war, 3011; and thought he should like to save him. Yet before the war this hero was what the world j has called a young clodhopper. THE "BRAIjICATION OF YELLOW RATTLE. This weed u often vwy prevalent m poor hay- tieidis, and in the aggregate undoubtedly causes very serious loss, is not only ii 'It a worthless plant, lising up plant food which should be available for better plants, but it also inter teres with the development of those other piants by partly living on their roots. As it is ai., a-iimial plint, each year's crop is produced from seed shed on the ground in the previous y.ar, so that where feait is practicable,, mowing an infested field before any seeds have noened would practically eradiate the weed 1n one year. Fields mown every year in the first week in July are rarely much infaated. Where this is not practicable, a method by which either the seedis or the young plaints ere destroyed would be effective. The seeds themselves apparently can act be destroyed without injuring other p-lants, buJt if a good dressing of common agricultural aalfc be applied just at the time when the seeds are germinating The number of plants produced may be reduced very materially. At the sug- gtionof the Board of Agriculture, an experi- menn; was carried out in 1917 on a poor day soil near Holyhead. Six cwt. of tsait per acre was applied on April 25th, reduced the number of' plants from 110 to 18 per square foot, but 3 cwt. alPlPlied at the same time only reduced them to 40. On May 3th, other parte of the t&nie field were treated in the sarnie way, but 6 mvt. applied ait •that time only reduced the number of Yellow Rafale plants from 110 per square foot to 44, while 3 cwt. per acre only ) reduced them to 70. The wood was not om. pletely Eradicated even in the best case; but at tho same time as the Yellow Rattle was being reduced, the grasses espaciaftly became more luxuriant. It must be borne in mmd that the æstri1; in which this experiment was carried out is eamiparaitively early, so that in late districts a. Hatter daite. tharn Apra 25th would probably have been more effective. Seasons also diflfer, so that •«. hard and fast rule is impossible. The im- portant point is, to apply the salt when the. seeds are just bursting. Therlle fl-ait and almost circular seeds, axe easily found and identified ion a lia aT infested field, so that the correct time can foe ajjwea&aiiied by occasional ex-ajnination.

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