SC DICE AND FARMING.
The men of science—at Oxford and elsewhere—are, in part, responsible for this. "Some of the queer unexpected ways in which science is coming to the help of farming were illus- trated on Saturday last, • when the Society of Chemical Industry went down in quantity to Rothamsted, the oldest agricultural station in the world, at any rate of its sort. One detail out of a score is enough for illustrating the point.
The chemists were shown how three fungi were discovered which, when. working in harmony with one another, will break. down straw or other vegetable waste ; and by their agency produce a manure of very much the same quality (in fact as in appearance) as stable manure. An older, war-time discovery of chemical means of breaking down straw has been thus extended and a new fertilizer of practical, economic utility produced, just as one older source was disappearing.
The three -fungi_ take the place of the horse.. -
W. BEACH THOMAS
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