THE WEATHER
1 DISTRICT REPORTS. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Featherston, March 20.-E))\'e. Greytown, llaroh 23.—Fine. 7 An American farmer, writing in "Land find Water" on the restoration of the farming land of the battle areas in France and Belgium, contends that the physical difficulties—great as they are—are not going to prove insurmountable. "To those scientists who hold that the land of the battle area has been 'poisoned' beyond remedy by gas and shell fumes, I might point out that," he says, "while these fumes occasionally bleach and cause fresh grass nnd foliage to wilt and die down, the effect is only temporary. If the roots aro injured (it is from being torn up by explosion, not from the fumes. In any event, the soil itself is not deleteriously affected. As to the effect of the constant churning of the earth by bursting sholls, I might point out that subsoil cultivation by the use of dynamite has been practised with invariable success in America for several years."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 4
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166THE WEATHER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 4
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