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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1935, 18 December 1913, Page 5

.Afje.l over 90 years, a <Birji(?n(cr named llowclls, .who lives at forth, in (he I'hondda Valley, Wales, lias just finished makiii-r his can cnfKn. 'Ho wells bits'over CO descendants, of whom 30 are great grandchildren. Certain experiments recently conducted tire said to give promise of a limp when agricultural Jinglund Will bo covered with oiops of Gargantuan dimensions, with ■.vegetables double the size they are now, Gild when I her? will bo no such thing as barreii Ian;! in the kingdom. Or that is the belief of Dr. W. 1). BoHomley, the professor of botany at Kind's College, London, who has been experimenting lor over seven years to find u scientific manure thai shall increase the growth of crops. Professov UoUo'mlcy ha? found that by Inoculating ordinary peat with nitrogcufixing bacteria and using it as manure he is able to jnerenw the Rrowlh of plants and vegetables in some eases as much as ISO per e.ent. | One of the great evils of the present Vigli price of petrol, an airman complains, . is the enormous eosl of flying. It is estimated that the fuel and oil costs of an aeroplane of high power run into about ,Ct per hour of flight, and when it is realised that whereas two years ago lirighsnd ofiir.ially owned one aeroplane, it had 15 lasl yrar, and now has from 120 to I,'if), and that will) this increase hove also come improveinfEls which will giyo about 2ofl hours' flying for each machine annually, the significance of high fuel costs will be'<ri» to be apnrwialcd. It will be .nicnsured by a fuel arid oil bill of about ,£'30,000 a .-»eai at retail prices,,.. , . >