INTENSIVE CULTURE.
TO TEE EDITOR OF THE PEKSS. Sir, —Just recently I lifted 1161b of parsnips from 4} square yards of ground. This completes the tests on this piece of land with the exception, of five mangolds. So far, I have never seen a statement of what could be produced on a given area of land. The following is the area pf the piece of land and the amount that has been produced on it this season:—Area of piece of land, l-27th and 23-35 th of an acre. Produce: —Potatoes 4651b, onions 2271b, parsnips 1161b, carrots 561b, mangolds (on test) about 501b, peaches 201b; eight long rows of peas, two rows of asparagus, one bed of ranunculus, one plot of asters, one bed of cabbage plants, and some seed onions. Part of the land is now occupied with winter cabbage and one peach tree. —Yours, '' • GEORGE LEE. Templeton, May 13th.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19310, 15 May 1928, Page 11
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