Turnip Export.
" According to a Southern Exchange another market for bur surplus produce has opened up. A resident of Milton IS Sending large quantities of turnips to Sydney, where they command a ready sale at satisfactory 5 prices'. 'As there is no district m the colonies where this root can be grown so successfully as m the south of "Ofagb and 1 -portions of loufililahdi fanners may find it to their advantage to turn their attention to its cultivation for. ''export.' We : have no hesita tion r in saying that the demand m [New ;South ' Wales is unlimited demand. Tasmania, Bgain , might become a good market for the samelrooti' For many years it has i been next to' impossible to produce 1 any m that colony. It sown early they run to seed, if late they are utterly destroyed by the aphis. > At one- time, Tasmania supplied Port Philip with nearly all its green vegetables ; now, Melbourne supplies Tasmania, and every steamer that enters the? port, df= ' Lannceston carries huge crates of cabbages and other green atttff. [ . '-v. " .'.'.' ■ ■''.' , ' •'"..■'' ■ —^—
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 3
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178Turnip Export. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 3
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