Lucerne-seed Treatment
( (>r 2500 farmers of New Zeatand ha vi- in the past season used baeteria t'i I : i« I p tliem grow lucerne in soils delii ii-nt in nitrogen. The bacterial treatmentt of lucerno Becil, whereby the plant and soiJ is givi*n the nitrogen necessary for suc* ce^ful crops, was the subject of a rePent article. Tho Plant Diseases Di vining of the Department. of Scientifie:uii Industrial Kesearch has just ar>-iinvti.-ed that for the season 1948-49 '•uL.re for nearlv 300,000 Ib. (299.014 b'" of seed has been supplied to 2550 farmers. Nearlv a third of the culture We:.; to 797 farmers of South CanterB'.uv, and Canterbury eame next with culture for 54,270 Ib. of seed td 433 farmers. Except for a sraall quantitv In a farmer in Fiji, all the culture was used for seeds in Ncw: Zealand.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 August 1949, Page 5
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139Lucerne-seed Treatment Chronicle (Levin), 13 August 1949, Page 5
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