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FOUR advisory leaflets have recently been rewritten for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. No. 267, which replaces the former Leaflet No. 296, deals with “Potato Growing in Allotments and Gardens”. The section on autumn preparation of soil directs attention to the importance of taking precautions against wireworms and leather jackets. It is not now recommended that seed be saved from a previous crop grown in the same district, owing to the depredations of virus disease, and the account of manuring is also brought into line with modern research. Advisory Leaflets No. 180, on “The Cultivation of Raspberries”, and No. 268, on “Plums and Damsons”, are revised mainly in the sections dealing with soils, diseases and manuring. The fourth Leaflet, No. 113, portrays, briefly, but with businesslike adequacy, modern methods of chicken rearing. The descriptions of sanitary considerations reflect modern research findings upon avian disease, the merits of the various systems of hovers and battery brooders are discussed, and the very considerable advances recently made in our knowledge of the food requirements of poultry are very evident in the section on feeding.
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Ministry of Agriculture Leaflets. Nature 138, 583 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138583b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138583b0