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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 117, 8 May 1908, Page 2

LNTEXJSE CULTIVATION. .Some months ago there appeared in the Loudon Daily Mail an article explaining how it was that nmall holdings were :i success in France and a, failure iu Englaud. That journal now i> able to show how similar holdings in England are capable of producing as much as the small holdings of tlie country beyond the ".Silver Streak.' 5 The results are not without interest to New Zealand producers. They show what can be done by intensely cultivating the land. According to the Daily Mail, a French gardener ill Berkshire is showing English market gardeners that English soil can be as profitably cultivated i\n French soil. This man's methods of intensive cullivation arc very remarkable. He has for many years *old i.'SUO worth of produce in a year oil one acre near Paris, and he is now demonstrating the possibility of (his being done in Berkshire. Me is employed by two women who started an experimental farm on live acres ot land. Though they employed, be->ide* the French gardener and his tamily. u number of students, the live acre* were actually found to be too much, and now they are working only half th.it area, and making enough pro Jit for all. The Frenchman, when the Daily \lai]V representative visited the place, had tin ec quarter:- o)' an acre of vegetables under U'll-glasses or frames. In many of the frame-, four feet square, were thirty lettuces, earwig, and caulillowcrs. and the temperature, thougllnt was snowing, was up to SO degree*. "Within half an acre were more vegetables and fruits, including melons, which are one of the most paying crops, than a good gardener would get into or eight acres." Every inch of ground bears at least three crops a year, e;ieh of thein anticipating the sear.on. "The soil will do all this if it is properly uiiide. It is wholly a question of economy of -pace and of rich clow, intensive culture. The secret —in the shortest phrase —is stable manure, glass, and French industn." So the French gardening expert.