A block of 115 acres of reclaimed land on Kildonan, the property of Mr G. S. Kempe, near Morgan (S.A.), has given the extarordinary yield of 290 tons of sheaf hay, between 60 and 76 tons of straw, and 320 bags of wheat. Phe method of cultivation, if such it can be termed, was simplicity itself. The annual flood waters, sufficient to cover the whole area, were admitted through an embankment, and then allowed to drain off until there was left only as much as would evaporate by the time the seeding season came on. The hot weather, however, so caked the surface that the implements could not cultivate it. As an experiment some seed was scattered in the cracks. The dampness underneath soon caused the wheat plants to appear, so Mr Kempe immediately scattered more seed with a Bobbie broadcast seed-sower* worked on a spring cart.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8349, 8 February 1913, Page 9
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147Untitled New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8349, 8 February 1913, Page 9
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