STONES GROW.
Mr. William Barber, general inill-i wright, of Iken Cliff, near Aldeburgh, Suffolk, grows stones. He has been doing it for 15 years. He has found that they grow only in the spring and autumn; that they grow little at first; that they need to be watered like all other crops, and that to get them to grow absolutely round it is necessary to turn them over at regular intervals. The stones grow about 3- 16th of an inch a I year. . ,
j Mr. Barber grows them in an old oil drum or tin containing earth to within about six -inches of the top. When he was a, boy, a big stone was pointed out to Mr. Barber on a farm at the nearby village of Blaxhall. Local legend had it that it was taken from a pit in a tumbril and place near a farmhouse so that people could step off it on to their horses. To-day you couldn't get it into the biggest farm wagon.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 9
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168STONES GROW. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 9
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