18 AUGUST 1939, Page 18

Indian Pioneers

The method is not very different from what is known as the Indore system, which has been practised in India and other parts of the East for centuries ; but in this no chemical is used, and it is common to fill the pits with alternate layers of farmyard manure and vegetable refuse. The owner of a beautiful market-garden farm m South Lincolnshire, the headquarters of vegetable culture, fertilises the whole of his farm by this method. The newer metho 1 is perhaps no better in results, perhaps it is inferior, but it is very simple and very cheap, and farmyard manure is often very difficult to obtain. The depth and area of the pit or pits depend only on the supply of stuff. A number of superimposed layers is desirable in both systems.