A NEW POTATO

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3094, 26 May 1917, Page 10

A NEW POTATO

Mr. T. Bell, .if Lower Hntt, after six years' experimenting and breeding, claims to have brought to perfection a new breed of potatoes that has this seaeon produced 32 tons per acre, for main crop, and specially-planted seed crops are now digging at 20 ton per aero on his farm. Jlr. Bell believes that next' season he will bo able to produce 36 tons per acre for the main crop. This new breed so far lias never been affected with Irish blight. The potato .is a. most prolific, cropper, and of the highest nutritious value and flavour for boiling, baking, or mashing. ' In an advertisement on our front page Mr. Bell offers a limited quantity of the potatoes for sale.

Mr. A. E. Lea, manager of the Ocean Beach Freezing Works, near Bluff, recently devised an invention by means of which the works are now capable of killing 150 head of cattle per day, says an exchange. The invention, which was installed in these works in time for the commencement of this season, has proved a thorough success, and patent rights are being sought throughout the Empire and abroad, and the patentee will shortly put his invention on the market, so that other works may have it installed. The "Manawatu Times" stated that the Farmers' Union is endeavouring to arrange a representative conference at Pa-lnierston North to confer on questions relating to production and exports, with a view to giving a lead to the Government.'