SOIL FERTILITY.
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, fflec. September 6, 11.25 p.m.) .-.•'. London, September G. v . v At the British 'Association ; meeting Doctors Russell and: Hutchinson,, announced the discovery; of: a'-micro-organ-ism which increases the bacteria essential to the fertility of the/soil.' Untreated soil contains.six million bacteria per gramme/ but, after treatment,; often sixty million. Such an. antiseptic 'as. tolueme kills the micro-organism. " ■ Mr. A; D!"Hall,"Director'-of r the Rothanistead Experimental, Station, and president of the: section, described, the discovery ,as the' most , ; noteworthy- since that of the fixation of nitrogen. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 915, 7 September 1910, Page 5
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90SOIL FERTILITY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 915, 7 September 1910, Page 5
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