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Show Eleven -Acre 'Hothouse' Yields 6 Crops a Year Mr. David Lowe, who lives near Edinburgh, has a gardening project said to be unique in the United Kingdom. To sum it up, Mr. Lowe has 11 acres underlaid with steam pipes and covered a foot or so above the surface, with glass panes set in frames. By shooting steam into the ground once a year, he "boils" the soil, killing all weeds. Each acre gets 100 tons of fertilizer and decomposed straw a year. He gets from six to eight crops a year a fantastic yield of lettuce, turnips, carrots, cauliflower, leek, onions, beans, and a lot of other things. In the short summer the glass is re-'moved re-'moved and the plants watered with warm water from overhead sprinklers. sprin-klers. It is said his crops grow together to-gether in "wild joy." It sounds like it. Mr. Lowe appears to have raised the old hothouse and forcing bed to its highest efficiency. It must cost money, but the Lowes of the Edinburgh Edin-burgh country have never been in business strictly for fun. His scheme seems likely to stir up almost as much excitement as our own Mr. Ed Faulkner provoked by his recent campaign against the moldboard 'plow. Maybe Mr. Lowe and Mr. ..Faulkner could get together on a project to feed tomorrow's world. |