BRITISH ROYAL SHOW AS AN OBJECT LESSON

Chronicle (Levin), 4 July 1947, Page 5

BRITISH ROYAL SHOW AS AN OBJECT LESSON

TJf'fcivcil ThnrMav, 7 p.m. LOX'DON, July J. At tlic Roval Show at Lincoln, wliicli has broken all rorords for attendance tliero is evidcucp of how Britain could incrcasc its agrieultural produi'tivitv by 10 ])(»r oent. and save inore tliau 5, 000,000 dollars woekly. It is to bt seen, says ihe Xcws Chronh-le 's corres pondent, in the jiulging rings who ro l.S different breods of ea! tio, is of slieep and eight of pigs, attracted the experts, in the maehinery avenues where fanning engineers have a staggering dis[>lay of implenients tliat enal)le a few men to do the work of jnany and at Ihe right timo, and last lmt not leasi in the Ministry of Agriculture 's great exhibition, of whai the seientist can do l'or the farmor. The most specta'-iilar .is tlie inereased production shown possilde by the management of a 70-acre fariu near Aberystwyth, of which a scale niodel lias been niade. Bv using the latesi knowledge about grass consisting chiefiy in ploughing up pasture from tinie to tinie and using new strains ot grasses, this i'ann grows niore of all its own feeding stuffs and has very nearly doubled its productivity in saies of milk alone.