POTATOES ON SILT
HASTINGS RESULTS Claiming to possess 10 acres of possibly the best potato-growing land in the world, a settler of the Pakowhai district, near Hastings, expects to raise an outstanding crop of potatoes this year.
Eighteen months ago. he said, the piece of land, which is close to the Ngaruroro River, was covered with blackberry and tussock, and early last year the blackberry was up to. fift. high. Then came the flood's, which covered the area with a deep deposit of soil and silt.
A few rponths ago he worked the land with a swamp tractor, which rooted up what was left of the blackberry bushes, and he war amazed at the depth of the new soil. lie could get a furrow of 2ft. without reaching the old level of the land. Ilis conviction that the land would produce an outstanding crop of potatoes followed the result he had obtained from planting a small patch last spring. The crop was amazing, he said, some of the tubers being up to Gin. through.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 11
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174POTATOES ON SILT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 11
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