GREAT DISCOVERY.
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
A MICRO-ORGANISM.
WHICH DESTROYS SOIL FERTILITY.
I Received Last Night, 11.25 o'clock. LONDON, Septeniuer 6. At the British Association meetißg, DrS Russell and Hutchinson announced the discovery of a microorganism which destroys the bacteria essential to the fertility o a soil. Thej said that untreated soil contained 6,000,000 bacteria par gramm:, but attar treatment the soil contained oftsn as many as 60,000>000. An antiseptic auch as "Toluene" would kill the micro-organism. Mr A. D. Hall, President of the Agricultural Section, described the discovery as the most important since thi3 fixation of nitrogen.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10087, 7 September 1910, Page 5
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102GREAT DISCOVERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10087, 7 September 1910, Page 5
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