TRANSPLANTING WHEAT
INVENTION IN GERMANY. LONDON, February 17. The Daily News says the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Walter Guinness, will shortly witness a German method of transplanting wheat by machinery, which has for a long time' been practised at Mecklenburg. The seed is sown in favourable soil, and is ready for transplanting in three weeks, owing to the more rapid germination. The transplanting machine is either drawn by horse or motor-driven, opens the furrow and drops in the plants at intervals, usually of a foot, but which can be adjusted. The rate is 12,000 plants an hour, and. it is claimed that the method increases the yield four-fold. The grain is onethird heavier than the grain obtained by orthodox methods.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 76
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