Forty years ago Messrs Lawes and Gilbert, of England, began a series of experiments in wheat growing. They selected plots of ground —in some they tried different manures, while on one plot no manure or change of crop was allowed, but wheat followed wheat, season after season, for 40 years. In that time there has been a decrease of just 10 bushels per acre in the yield. One fourth bushel per acre a year. Taking this as a standard case, farmers who follow wheat with wheat not giving the land any needed rest, or feeding it with manure or green crops turned under, may look for a decrease, of course less some years than others, but an average of onefourth bushel per acre a year. This is one practical outcome for these celebrated experiments, for which the fanners of the whole world may feel thankful to Messrs Lawes and Gilbert,
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Patea Mail, 15 February 1881, Page 4
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