TOO RICH LAND.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4362, 6 January 1922, Page 3

TOO RICH LAND.

SEA’S GREAT GIFT TO EAST COAST OF ENGLAND.

About 30'00 acres of'.land of quite fantastic richness are waiting to be added to the wealth of England. Some neighbouring acres, whose enclosure was completed by German prisoners, produc,ed such extraordinary crops this year that the farmer intends to grow nine consecutive crops of wheat without Using manure in order tp duce the excessive fertility. These new acres are close to the mouth of the River Nene (Lincolnshire). They are thought to be even richer than those; lately enclosed, having a jyeat depth of the finest silt, which has now raised them so far out of the sea that they are only just awash at high tide.

k Morc such acres reach a stage ready for reclamation every year along the west end of the Wash, but so many have seldom so obviously asked to be taken in and cultivated. The people of Lincolnshire and Norfolk think that their complete recov-i ery from the sea ought to be a definite and permanent part of national policy, especially at times of unemployment such as the present. The Government had earlier adopted, a scheme of reclamation which has now been totally surrendered, to the amazement of the people who know the land best. <