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Sir,— May I add my suggestions to those of your correspondent. . *-• Pearson. I speak from practical know ledge, having spent a great part of my life in agricultural farmmgonan average one-man farm of reasonably fair land. The rotation I suggest will solve many problems of hour, fertility, and finance. Thir y acres of potatoes followed by wheat, followed by rape, followed by wheat, followed by turnips, followed by barley, followed by peas, foll ° w ! < wheat, followed by rape, and finally sown down with spring oats and grass. U bushels perennial rye grass, ami did of red clover an acre. At the end or a 10-year period a fortune will have been taken from a paddock whose fertility will have been quadrupled. A farm can be divided in such a way that this process can be practised so that out of a five-year-old grass paddock the first crop , will be potatoes. Sheep, cattle, farm-bred and fed horses on a place such as this will all add their quota of prosperity and pride and “Grow more wheat’ l will be an unneeded exhortation.—Yours, etc.. BACK TO THE TEAM. Hornby, May 9, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23943, 10 May 1943, Page 6
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