Certain experiments recently conducted are said to give promise of a time Avhen agricultural England will be covered with crops of Gargantuan dimensions, with vegetables double the size they are now, and when there will be.no such thing as barren land in the kingdom. Or that is the belief of Dr. W. B. Bottomley, the professor of botany at King's College, London,, who has been experimenting for over seven years to find a scientific manure that shall increase the growth of crops. Professor Bottomley has found that by inoculating ordinary peat with nitro-gen-fixing bacteria and using it- as manure he is able to increase the growth of plants and vegetable in some cases as much as 150 per cent.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8743, 17 December 1913, Page 7
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