New and Improved Methods 



If Professor Bottomley's discoveries can 

 be applied on a commercial scale, there will 

 be a complete revolution in our method of 

 enriching the soil. If the Professor can 

 make potatoes grow without potash it will 

 be an achievement of the greatest national 

 importance, for Germany possesses the main 

 potash supply of the world. 



F. Fallow. 



Many farmers are giving up bare fallow- 

 ing, but it is still too common. Of course 

 there are cases where nothing short of a 

 bare fallow will clean a field, but in general 

 terms it should be possible to do all the 

 cleaning when the land is under root crops. 

 Much orreater care should be taken to see 

 that no portion of the land on a farm lies 

 idle. There is no doubt that mangolds 

 could be substituted with great advantage 

 for turnips and swedes on land where these 

 often fail. Mangolds are in every way a 

 more profitable crop for cows, cattle, and 

 sheep. If the ground is properly prepared 

 mangolds afford one of the most certain crops, 

 but the importance of proper treatment 



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