DRY LAND FARMING.
CHIEF CONCERN OF RESEARCH "WORKERS. - i
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-BY ELECTRII
TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) FREMANTLE, May 23. Sir E. J. Russell, director of the renowned Southampton - Experimental Station at Hertfordshire, arrived 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 and anywhere. The Jewish colonists in Palestine were now making steady progress by scientific methods. It was astonishing how successful they had been with citrus fruits and bananas on dry but irrigated land, while they were producing wheat and dairy produce on unirrigated land
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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115DRY LAND FARMING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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