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Show Crop Growing on Small Scale. A small holder in East Loxham is making an interesting experiment In barley growing upon IiIb land to test tho possibility of raising corn on n smnll scale. In 1907 ho sowed 78 specially spe-cially selected grains of barley, which yielded 400 enrs. Tho rcflulting kernels ker-nels he sowed In 1008 nnd harvested In 14 weeks, with tho result that he got a bushel of threshed barley, which ho haa sown this year, his objoct being be-ing to show what can bo done in cereal ce-real cultivation from very small beginnings. be-ginnings. London Standard. |