SOIL RESEARCH.
“Soil research, not from the point of view of agriculture only, but of the world’s population, which depends on tne products of the soil for its existence, is a cardinal factor in the advancement of civilisation The time, aUhough still far distant, can yet be envisaged when mankind will be so numerous that the earth will have difficulty in finding sustenance for the teeming .multitudes,” says the “Aberdeen Press’ \ referring to the Institute of Soii Research, so recently generously endowed by Mr T. If. Macaulay, president of the Sun Life-Assurance Company, of Canada, i “That nation is to be envied the productivity of whose soil is sufficient to meet its own needs in food. The agriculturally self-sup-porting State is, from the point of view of economics and oi certain factors in man-power, the ideal country. AVe in Briiain are so .reduced in agicuitural resources that five-sixths of our food has to be imported, entailing a tremendous drain upon our communal wealth. Our soil is old and weary after countless generations of cultivation.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 8
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174SOIL RESEARCH. Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 8
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