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Shannon News, 17 February 1922, Page 4

The value of white lupin as a manure is evidenced ■by the remarkable results following its use in the experimental plot at the Wliakatane District High School. The white lupins, a plant of the nitrogen producing legume family, were allowed to grow £ft nigh before they were cropped and the prolific green stuff dug into the soil where it rots quickly. Maize plants planted last October in this manure, dug in two years. ago, in the old sandy loam soil, have grown to at least 10ft high with a strong stalk 3m in diameter.. Other plants nearby without the lupin manure are -fit shorter, and neither so sturdy nor so fine in colour. Grimm lucerne, a plant with the crown well below the

A well informed London correspondent states that Mayfair is all agog discussing the rumoured coming engagement of the Prince of Wales to Lady Rachel Cavendish. The engagement, it is said, will be formally announced, immediately following the arrival home of the Prince of Wales from his Eastern trip, the wedding to take place some time in the latter half of the year. As* Lady Rachel is to'be one of the eight bridesmaids at Princess Mary’s wedding this month, her reported engagement to the Prince of .Wqles sounds feasible enough. She is the fourth daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, recently Gov-ernor-General of. Canada. Shrewd guessers have already tipped one,of the eight as a likely bride for the popular young Prince. Lady Rachel is young, and a very attractive English girl. Her .great grandmother, the handsome Duchess of Devonshire, js well known to all by the oft-reproduced portrait of her by Gainsborough. I'he Duchess dukedom originated .in the twelfth century, so the family is quite an old one. ..