ENGLISH FARMING
MORE-PRODUCTION DRIVE
SOME NOTABLE RESULTS
English farm papers to hand pub* lish notable results: of the moreproduction campaign in Great Britain. Gloucestershire County last season grew 200.000 acres more crops than in pre r war days, and is now fully self-supporting in wheat cuid potatoes. The. wheat acreage is three times and the potato acreage nine/ times' greater than in 1939. Kent's wheat crop last season Avas 2 8-4 million bushels (or three times) more than in 1939. It was the biggest wheat crop the county had ever known. Arable crops in the county had doubled in four years. In a remote district in Radnort shire on a hill 1300 ft above sea level, a "waste of bracken" grew a crop of oats of. splendid quality,, "as high j as the previo-us! bracken grew," which apparently was; saying something. It was estimated to yield 30 bushels to the acre, but. was immediately lorried away when harvested to be cleaned and dried. A 10ft and several Bft harvester-combines <juickly harvested the. crop off the hill. . Performances such as these, the high values of stock and produce, and the disposal of farms are three features of these Home reports that impress. One of the saving features of this (intense production effort is that farmers are given every assistance in maintaining the fertility of the soil of old-established arable lands, whilst the fertility of the waste lands brought in during the last few years' is not allowed to go back.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 3
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249ENGLISH FARMING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 3
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