Big Yields From Hybrid Maize and Lucerne
SYBNEY, Jan. IS. An Ameriean soil scientist said when he arrived in Sydnev that he would tell Australian experts about a new hybrid Lueerae Avhich vields up to seven tons an acre. He said the present lucerne yield ranged from two to five tons an acre. He is Dr. Charles Tvellogg, chief of the United 8tat.es Soil Survey. Dr. Tvellogg said: 11 A new hybrid maize, now widely sown in Ameriea, has increased maize yield from 30 to 100 bushels an acre. "The inereased maize crop, nsed entirelv for live stoek feed, accounted for two-thirds of the meat consmned by the wartime anny. ' ' Dr. Ivellogg said that Austrr.lia had some of the best soil scientists in the world, and he added that one purpose of liis visit was to exclmnge all the knowledge each conntry had acquired in the past feW vears. Hormone spravs which kill weeds bul allow crops to flourisli would eventually eliminate the hoe, Br. Ivellogg said. Dr. Kellogg will visit the Wade Agvicultural Research Institute, Adelaide, before going as an Ameriean delegale to the Pacific Science Conferenee at Auckland next month.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 January 1949, Page 5
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