Doubling the World's Harvest

Southland Times, Issue 14814, 15 December 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

Doubling the World's Harvest

Under this heading the September numbai of Harmsworth's Magazine gives an interest , ing account of a Bories of experiments whicr have been in progress for some years ab th« Minnesota State Experiment Station in the croBS fertilising of wheat and other grains. From the account given of theee experiments it is evident that theee Minnesota experimenters are working on the same lines aa the Messrs Gat ton have been working on in Britain for the laat twenty years. The State-endowed Minnesota scientists evidently read or heard of the Messrs Garton'a work, and have taken up the same line of scienti6c work, but without makir/g due acknowledgement of the source of their inspiration. The Harmsworth Eaya : Some of the new wheats have shown a yield of 42 bushels per acre. Out of ten trials of four selected wheats, extending over a series cf years, some of the yields are as high as 35 bushels per acre, rarely, even in the ye»rs most inimioal to grain, falling as low as the farm average — 15 bushels per aen?. The general average of these four wheats for the tea trials, (he trial* taking place in different latitude?, was 22 5 bushels per aore, an increase of 7& bushele per acre over the customary average. The best of tho four wheats maintained an average of 24 1 buehcU per acre during the ten trial?.