RAINLESS WHEAT.
LONDON, May 2. Dr Macdonald, of the Union of South' Africa Department of Agriculture, the enthusiastic exponent and pioneer of the dry farming movement, who is now m England, declared, m an interview with Reuter'a representative, that m each of the four provinces and m Rhodesia thousands of acres of dry land, which were oneo considered valueless, are now being ploughed up and planted, and are yielding excellent crops, : "America has grown, wheat on an eight-inch rainfall," ho said. "Australia lias grown wheat on a five-inch rainfall, but we, m South Africa, have grown a rainless wheat. . "That is to say, that during the past Season at'- Lichtenburg,' -n-hich is situated m the dry i zone of thei Transvaal, we have grown wheat without a single drop of rain falling upon it from seed timo until harvest.'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13102, 16 June 1913, Page 9
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139RAINLESS WHEAT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13102, 16 June 1913, Page 9
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