POTATOES INTO STARCH.
"Jacob Terry" (Mr. R. J. Creighton), in his interesting American notes, has the following:—"I know New Zealanders take a hint kindly, even though they never intend to profit by it. Now, as you are trying to make both ends meet and pay your taxes, and as you have not a very large market for your produce, would it not be well to establish manufactures when you can 1 In the State of Maine, for sev-
eral years, there was no demand foi* potatoes, but the farmers did not give up growing them. Co-operative starch factories were established to convert the potatoes into starch, and there are now twenty-two of them in one county alone in that State; These factories run ninety days each Beasonj and will use three million bushels of potatoes* at twenty centSj or lOd pet bushel. This provides a local market for the potato crop of the country to the extent of £ 120,000, creates labour, and em courages the farmers. Starch will sell when potatoes are unsaleable* Why not try it ?"
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Kumara Times, Issue 1471, 15 June 1881, Page 2
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