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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 213, 17 December 1910, Page 9

INTENSIVE CULTIVATION. £240 FROM AN ACRE. London. October 14. A very interesting experiment in intensive cultivation on practical line is coming to a successful end on a Surrey farm, the yield amounting to £240 per acre. A piece of ground was planted with early cabbage, which was cleared off in ■Tflne. As soon as the ground was free it was planted with celery on a rather new principle. The plants were put in the ground in lanes, as it, were, each lane having six lines contiguous to one another. Between these lanes are vacant spaces from which the soil was used to earth up the celery. This earthing-up is done in a simple and effective manner. Two boards, each with a single wooden spike beneath it to hold it in place, are set across the lines, and the soil thrown into this temporary trough, which, is transferred to the next row as each row of six plants is thus earthed up, and the produce is fetching the highest price on the market. On the same farm a number of frames of the Old English pattern are now filled 'with their third crop of the year—a harvest of dwarf beans, which will be ripe just as the last of the outdoor beans are over, when they will fetch almost aS high a relative price as the early melons which preceded them. The same frames will have a fourth crop of forced rhubarb before the year is out.