A GOVERNMENT POTATO FARM
TO GROW CLEAN SEED. In discussing the Irish blight problem ' with a'potato-growers' deputation in New South • Wales,'' the Under-Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Anderson) said that the Minister had before hira a proposal to 6tart a; potato farm to grow new, clean seed for the growers, and proposed to 6tart an SO-acre-farin and distribute seed therefrom on commercial lines. "The question that suggests'itself (says the Sydney "Telegraph") is where is the Department going to get the clean seed from to plant—that is, seed that will for a certainty prove clean. Blight 'has.appeared' this year in'some'of the Department's, crops, grown from seed which was believed beyond question to be clean when The effort to grow clean seed .' is a commendablefbue, but it is surrouW-('" ed with difficulties now that the disease has got such a wide hold of the State." ;
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 8
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142A GOVERNMENT POTATO FARM Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 8
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