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A contribution to the study of the infertility of the subsoil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

C. R. Van Der Merwe
C. R. Van Der Merwe
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(Division of Chemistry, Pretoria.)
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Although the infertility of the subsoil in humid, semi-arid and arid regions has received much attention from investigators in Europe and America, in South Africa, as far as the writer is aware, no such work has been done.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1926 , pp. 507 - 521
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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