Untitled

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1732, 10 May 1905, Page 76 (Supplement)

Tho result of the experiments with liitragin bacilli at Lev in has been very successful. Three plots each were sown of broad beans, peas, clover and vetches. In the first the seed was inoculated with the bacilli, in the second the soil was inoculated, in the third neither seed nor soil being inoculated. In each case the plot where the seed was inoculated shows a greater accumulation of liitragin nodules than that in which the soil was inoculated, and iho latter in turn shows a greater accumulation than the untreated plot. This culture is only useful for inoculating leguminous crops and is of no practical benefit to grain crops. The liitragin: stored in the nodules of the roots of the c-over, and retained by mo soil when the crop is cut, is available for tho succeeding crop, which has not the power of elaborating cultures for itself. Dr Moore, of Washington, from whom the Government Biologist, M- T. W. Ivirlc, received tho cultures, lies promised to send him a further simply, so that considerable quantities may be manufactured for distribution to farmcvs in order that they may be able to test tho cultures for tbems coves-