AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 197, 3 September 1901, Page 3

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

The Department of Agriculture in Washington is making investigations to And out means whereby persona in moderate circumstances may force garden truck during the cold season. In this connection it is interesting to note that successful experiments have recently been made in the forcing of the growth of asparagus in a field in winter by the aid of steam. Narrow trenches about 4in. deej> are dug between the rows and covered with boards, bo as to form little tunnels, a hose penetrating the soil and keeping it moist and warm. The process, according to the Philadelphia Telegraph, is performed only once a day for five minutes at a time, and the results obtained have been quite remarkable. Within recent years, salad plants, tomatoes, muskmelons, green corn, beans and other garden products have been added one after another to the list of greenhouse crops. The raising of this truck in greenhouses, however, is an expensive proceeding and beyond the reach of the majority of people who own gardens.

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Absolute equality of right* cannot b* 5 and should not he, for all man are equal only in the grave. A sound, free civilised country mua fc bo so competent to govern itself that private enterprise and private ownership shall be safe and profitable to the owners and safe and just to others.

The only place where all men are. of equal height is the land of pigmies ; where all men have equal brain power, the asylum for ircurable idiots. Equal voice is common only to the dumb,' equal insight to the blind, “In the dark,’ 1 e&ya the Spanish proverb, “ the mole has eyes.