TENPENCE A BUSHEL.
/ Here is this chemist's remarkable ' plan of cultivation. Expensive wheat lands are banished as unnecessary. Instead, he builds a rough structure of several floors—a sort of factory. Upon each floor he puts some soil—in reality, he points out, it does not matter whether you place fine sand or gravel there, the only object being that it should act as a support for the stalks arid provide the necessary amount of dampness. Then the sand or the gravel is. impregnated with the nitrate solution, and the seed is planted. The radiation is supplied by wires and tubes, and in two months there is a'bountiful crop !
"Yes, six crops a year, and lOd or a shilling a bushel to cover all the cost," says Mr Williams, "as compared with the present average of about four shillings."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8742, 16 December 1913, Page 6
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137TENPENCE A BUSHEL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8742, 16 December 1913, Page 6
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