An experiment that may yield thousands of extra acres for food cultivation has been started along the Barnet road in Middlesex. “Pocket-sized” tractor ploughs are being used to turn up the wide grass verges and barley will be sown as a test crop. If this experiment is successful the idea will probably be taken up throughout the country.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26709, 2 March 1948, Page 5
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58An experiment that may yield thousands of extra acres for food cultivation has been started along the Barnet road in Middlesex. “Pocket-sized” tractor ploughs are being used to turn up the wide grass verges and barley will be sown as a test crop. If this experiment is successful the idea will probably be taken up throughout the country. Otago Daily Times, Issue 26709, 2 March 1948, Page 5
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