FARMING WITH BACTERIA.
; INOCULATION OF SOIL. PLANT RESEARCH WORK. Farming with bacteria through the inoculation of the soil is now a practical achievement made possible by extensive investigation and experimentation by the Plant Research Station at Palmerston North. _ This has taken the forpi of the distribution of .lucerne inoculum, a nodule-forming organism. This has been developed bv the Plant Research Station during the-past four years. For three seasons now the station has been sxipplying farmers with the culture, which enables them to establish lucerne in places where the plant previously could not be grown. This scientific method of dealing with plant life and tire soil has been so successful that already this year cultures for 30,0001bs of seed have been supplied to farmers. ' This exceeds tne amount for the whole of any previous (yetir>,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 49, 28 January 1932, Page 6
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134FARMING WITH BACTERIA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 49, 28 January 1932, Page 6
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