A New Fact Regarding Potatoes
! Up to the present it has been gen- ! erally supposed (says the North Otago ; Times ),< that potatoes could only be > grown with their haulms showing j i above the ground. This, however, is ; a mistake, and shows that we are apt ! to form conclusions without proper jand reasonable grounds for arriving at them. This season a resident of Oamaru planted early potatoes aud -put them at too great a depth in thn Sgrouud. As nothing .appeared above ithe ground to indicate that the potatoes were making the ordinary proigre&s, he concluded they had "gone ;off," and planted cabbages above the spot, where they were put in. In the course of time the cabbages went the way of all cabbages, and some of the ground was turned over To the astonishment of the party a fine crop of early potatoes was lifted. Thu potatoes had grown without- putting " shaws" above the ground. If this can be calculated upon to take place every, time potatoes are planted deep, it will be better to follow out this plan than iuu the rusk of frosts aud droughts by planting near the surfaee. The above is a fact.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 97, 21 February 1889, Page 3
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