POTATOES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18415, 23 June 1925, Page 11

POTATOES.

TO THE EDITOR 01' "TITE PKESS." Sir, —1,, have grown potatoes for a number of years,'and anything appearing in the columns of your paper on this subject is of interest to me. In reading the market reports of some of the different centres, I find that red Dakota potatoes are selling at a higher price than any other variety, quite the reverse from what they did at the end Of last season. You will remember when tliis well-known variety first came on the market. It held premioi place, a position it should never havo lost. Some months ago, a correspondent, writing on this subject, wanted to know why this variety was losing favour with the consuming public. He expressed tho belief that other inferior varieties wero being palmed on to tho consumer for Dakotas. Later you made a reference in one of your reports to this correspondent, that itwas principally owing to their being too deep in the eyes. Yet, what do we actually find to-day, with all the prejudice against them being so deep in tho eyes? The price indicator is moving lip in favour of the Dakota, and .although tho restrictions have beer, tightened up at Port, tho practice still continues, viz.. priming them with Dakotas. In conclusion,-might I suggest the following as the only means to eliminate this evil: That all growers be allowed, in fact, compelled, to put their intals stamped on each sack. This would protect the consumer, as well as the grower. Thanking you.— Yours etc., TRUE DAKOTA.

Juno 22nd, SCHOOLMASTERS AND COWS, TO THE TEDITOB or "the press." Sir —I noticed ,a schoolmaster, tho other day, tolling the dairymen that pecuniary was derived from pecus, a cow I thought pecus was a herd. A cow" would be vacca, whence vaccine is derived. Anyhow, Latin is out of fashion!— Yours etc., June 22nd, 1925.

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THE NEW BISHOP. TO THE EDITOR Ot . "THE PJtESS." Sir,—With most of "Watchman's" statements I am quite in accordj but I cannot agree with him when he writes that a modernist Bishop, as Dr. Barnes, in Christehurch; would have "a most ruinous effect." \ A clergyman does not rise to the episcopal position if lie loaves' a trail of ruination along his career. I think all will agree that the crreer of eminent divines, modernist or otherwise, is marked by successes rather than by calamities, and if this holds in the Old Country why should it fair here? If it should fail, and •'Watchman" prove con ect, the general explanation would attribute the failure to our old-fash-ioned, out-of-date notions of theology. Wo should show ourselves to bp, theologically, merely survivals in an out-of-the-way place. Such- an occurrence would, of course, support my contention that our Church, for the very asswanco of its continuation, should contain a live clerical .clement, with episcopal sanction, studious to awaken us from our half-century of theological stagnation. Again, active research in Biblical criticism is still going on, and it is just as incorrect to apply the term "oldfashioned and superannuated" to such research as it would.bo to apply them to present chemical research or to investigations of the remains of ape-like humans of hundreds of thousands of years ago. Criticisni began coeval with tho thing criticised, as when some ancient philosopher opposed the. making of a graven image, i contending that the Creator could not be expressed in tfl/ms of tho created. Progress has been tho result of. criticism, and can hardly now be stayed, though it may be delayed, and the idea of progress seems to mo entirely to clear modernism from the charge of being superannuated. May I conclude .by applying to : "Watchman" and his . laissez-faire party the very words, sweeping though they" are, that he appliesi to the modernist, and may I sadly: say'that-liis lethargic contentment is "now old-fash-ioned, superannuated, based on an exploded materialism which could no longer claim to be scientific, had no foundation in historic fact, was wholly unphilosophical, and was false to real experience of life." As to materialistic notions, is it not a painful fact that tho materialistic crudities of oldfashioned theology have powerfully nullified the labours of missionaries among refined persons of the East?— Yours, etc., ANGLICAN.