DRY FARMING
WONDERFUL RESULTS REFORTED EXPERTS VISITS AUSTRALIA. PREMANTLE, May 23. Sir E J Russell, director of the tal station in Hertfordshire, arrived renowned Southampton experimenby the Cathay. He said that dry land agriculture was the chief concern of those engaged in research work, which affected all parts of the Empire. Wheat was one of the best crops for planting on dry land anywhere. The Jewish colonists in Palestine were now making steady progress by scientific methods. It was astonishing how successful they had been with citrus fruits and bananas on dry, but irrigated, land, while they were producing wheat and dairy produce on unlrrigated land.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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