“ZUYDER ZEE PROVINCE”
CROPS FROM DRAINED AREAS. Holland’s great scheme for draining the whole of the Zuyder Zee and converting the land, into a new province nearly 1,000,000 acres in area, has highly piomising prospects from the agricultural point of view. Small areas which have been cleared experimentally yielded the following satisfactory crops' last year: — 3.500 tons of wheat; 2.500 tons of barley; 1,000 tons of rye; 5,000 acres of grass and clover, on which 2,000 cattle were fed. More land is gradually being reclaimed. The greatest task of clearing the whole area, which is expected to add 10 per cent, to Holland's arable land, has already been planned. In September, 1933, the Zuyder Zee was cut off from the North Sea and converted into the “Yssel Lake” by the completion of an embankment. The soil, like the water of the Yssel Lake, is being gradually cleared of salt.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 9
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