REGENERATING THE POTATO.
The well-known writer, Mayne Keid, has been experimenting with Mexican seed potatoes in Herefordshire, England, thereby doubling his crop and entirely escaping the blight whioh has been so fatal to the English and Irish potato crop of late years. He says in a letter to the London "Live Stock Journal," that for the last three years he has been cultivating a 'ed which came direot from Mexioo, with the result, that while ten ether sorts, planted in the same field, tended with like care—in short, coeterit pirihv* —have all been more or less diseased, his Mexioan " papas " show not a spot of blight. Doris this all in their favour, for while the best of other kinds have yielded less than five tons to the acre, they have produced over ten, in common drills done by the plough. Hundreds of sp'-cimens were above one pound in weight, some even a pound and a half. After being stored in ordinary field pits through the winter the Mexioin potatoes came out perfectly sound, and seem to in quality as the spring advances. As an artiolo for the table he thinks they have no and he proposes that the Government take in hand the importation of Mexican and Peruvian seed as a cure for the potato blight.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2088, 2 November 1880, Page 4
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216REGENERATING THE POTATO. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2088, 2 November 1880, Page 4
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