WHEAT FOR BRITAIN.
GROWTH AT HOME URGED. GREAT POTENTIALITIES* LONDON. Feb. 10. Professor Rowland Biffen, professor of agricultural botany at Cambridge University, who is nicknamed tho " Wheat Wizard," urges Britain to grow more wheat for her national safety. Ho points out that she can grow 32 bushels to the acre, and that many of tho largo exporting countries cannot grow half that quantity. Tho professor asserts that within two yoa.rs England • would develop better wheat than the variety la?pvra as " Yw>- ' .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18946, 18 February 1925, Page 9
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