21 JULY 1928, Page 14

BENEFICENT BACTERIA.

This immediacy in scrabbing up—and better in ploughing— the ground, is in accordance with recent discoveries by our men of science. It has been proved at Rothamsted that the soil bacteria are much more active early in the autumn than later. The sooner the stubble is turned in, the more quickly it is seized upon by these beneficent, invisible inhabitants of activated soil and converted into plant food. Other practical advantages in early ploughing need no demonstration.

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