IN DRY LANDS.
HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY,
PROGRESS OF JEWISH COLONISTS. Received May 23, 10.45 a.m. FREMANTLE, May 23. Sir E. J. Russell, director of the renowned Southampton experimental station at Hertfordshire, was a passenger by the Cathay, which has arrived here. Sir E. J. Russell stated that argiculture in dry lands was the chief concern of those engaged in research work affecting all parts of the Empire. Wheat was one of the best crops tor planting on dry land .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 umrrigated land.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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121IN DRY LANDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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