POTATO GROWING.
THE SEASON IN LOWER WAIKATO. ".It.'.is' shied that an. enormous area of potatoes is being cultivated in the Lower Waikato this year, ami according to latest reports .the crops have come through the! 'recent bad'weather, well, and have so far' escaped the. Irish blight The general absence.of. Wight is attributed largely to tlic fact that autumn-grown seed has been used almost exclusively by growers, who estate that plots plnnted with other seed 'have been badly affected with blight. The average yield of the early crops which have' been lifted has been only fair, but the high, prices ruling amply repaid growers some of the first dispatches of the spawn ■realising up to .£35 per ton, wliilst £30 and <£2S per tan railed some weeks after digging commenced.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 18 December 1912, Page 10
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129POTATO GROWING. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 18 December 1912, Page 10
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