CANTERBURY POTATO CROP
Reduction In Size Predicted
By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, .March 17. A considerable reduction in the size of the potato crop of north and midCanterbury is predicted, according to information given today by the fields superintendent of the Department of Africulture, Mr. R. McGillivray. In a number of districts in North Canterbury, Mr. McGillivray said, where farmers had been trying to discover what their yields would be, disappointment had often resulted from trial diggings. Those who had lifted 12 tons to the acre last year might be lueky if they took six or seven tons off the land this year. Paddocks of slightly better quality adjoining land from which between nine and 10 tons had been lifted would only yield about five or six tons to the acre this season.
Where crops had been planted late, and because of bad weather a large proportion of the seed had been sown later than usual, they were certain to show a very large percentage of small potatoes. It was doubtful if the yield of average size table potatoes would exceed three or four tons to the acre in such crops.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 12
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190CANTERBURY POTATO CROP Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 12
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