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PROF. GIGLIOLI, of the Agricultural College at Portici, a graduate of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, has given to the Association of Proprietors and Farmers of Naples a voluminous and most carefully compiled Report on the results of the first year's experiments on wheat-growing at the experimental field of Suessola, about six kilometres fom Acerra. The field is on the estate of Count Francesco Spinelli, who generously lends it to the Association for experimental purposes. The district was celebrated in olden time for its fertility, but was afterwards long neglected on account of its marshy nature, and the land became sour and productive of disease. Now, again, drainage and improved cultivation have changed these marshes into some of the best land of a fertile district. The soil of the experimental field is easily worked, friable, and hears a good natural vegetation; no analysis of it, however, is furnished. Giglioli points out that it is in too high condition at present for comparative manuring experiments, but admirably suited for comparing different varieties of corn and different methods of sowing and cultivation, as by dibbling and the Lois-Weedon system.
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K., E. Field Experiments on Wheat in Italy1. Nature 41, 404–405 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041404a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/041404a0