TRANSPLANTING WHEAT
INVENTION IN GERMANY
GREAT INCREASE IN YIELD
LONDON, February 17
The ‘ Daily Nows ’ says the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Walter Guinness, will shortly witness a German method of transplanting wheat by machinery, which has for a long time been practised at Mecklenburg, The seed is sown in favorable soil and is ready fur transplanting in three weeks, owing to the more rapid germination. The transplanting machine is eitner drawn by horse or motor driven, opens the furrow and drops in the plants at. intervals, usually ol a foot, but which can he adjusted. The rate is ] 4 J,(K)O plants an hour, and it is claimed that the method increases the yield four-fold. The grain is one-third heavier than the grain obtained by orthodox methods.
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Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 6
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126TRANSPLANTING WHEAT Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 6
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