CROP MARVELS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 601, 4 August 1933, Page 5

CROP MARVELS

(Press Assn,—

growth in ten days THE VERY. LATEST IN SCIENTIFIG CULTURE THIRTY-SIK CRORS A YEAR

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

(Rec, 7,39 p,m.) London, August 3. ■ An Au.strali.au Press Ass.ociafion representative saw a demonstratiou at the Mechuuical Institute pf Dairy Research Stations at Shjnfield,-' near Readjug, when tests were. carripd out pf a new process fpr the eultiyation of fodder for the fatteniug of cattle. • • The process was invented ■ by a German spientist, Dr,- Spaugerberg, and an English company has been •fprmed tp carry out commercial deyelppment. It enables numerpus crops to gro.w to the same extent in 10 days as they would normally occupy in two to- three months, The process .consists of sowing the seed in airtight cabinets from which the light has been excluded, the seed being treated with a considerable quantity of water and a small propoytion- of chemicals. The method produees such intense growth that the crop can be removed -from the C.abinet after 10 days when it is from 32in to 16in high, and •used immedjately for fattening pur-; poses. It is claimed that 36 crops can be grown annually and that all will be particularly suitable for fattening cattle owing to the High. vitamin content.