AN INNOVATION IN FARMING.
(Per Press Association.) WKIXINU'mx, May S. ,„ '?„T I ".m- o/ , ' x l H ' l ' il »™ts with nitrogen bacilli ut t | u . u-vin State Jam, has been very successful. J Live plots each were sown of |K -as beans, clover a,„| vetches. I„ one of each the seed was inoculated in the second the soil was inoculated, and in the third neither seed nor so, was -treated. I„ each case the plot whei-u the seed was inoculated shows greater accumulation of nitrogen nodules than that i„ which the soil was inoculated, and the tatter >n turn shows greater accumulation than the untreated plots I his culture is only useful for leiruimnoiis crops. Tho n(trog,.„ stored in the nodules of roots is retained by the soil wheii the crop is cut, and is available for a. suiceeuyiiK crop which has not the power of elaborating cultures for itself. I>i\ Moore, of Washington, frpm whom the Uuvcxnment biologist received the cultures, has promised a further supply, so that considerable (illumines may be manufactured for distribution to fanners.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7812, 3 May 1905, Page 2
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179AN INNOVATION IN FARMING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7812, 3 May 1905, Page 2
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