DRY LAND CROPS.
PROGRESS IN PALESTINE. (Received 12 noon.) FREMAXTLE, this day. Sir E. J. Russell, director of tie renowned Southampton experimentjil station, has arrived here by the Cathay. He said that dry land agriculture was the chief concern of those engaged in research work which affected all parts of the Empire. Wheat was one of the best crops for planting on dry land anywhere. The Jewish colonists in Palestine, he said, were now making stead v pro"'.\-> s by the use of scientific methods. It°waa astonishing how successful thev had been with citrus fruits and bananas on dry, but irrigated, land, wtyj e thev wer# producing wheat and dai*y nroduce om unimgated land.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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