RECORD POTATO YIELD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 3

RECORD POTATO YIELD

AVERAGE PER ACRE Potatoes weighing 141,105 tons were produced in the Dominion in the 193940 season, compared with 87,671 tons in 1937-38 and 146,785 tons in the previous season, according to the Abstract of Statistics. The past season's yield, from 20,033 acres on holdings of one acre or over, situated outside borough areas, averaged 7.04 tons an acre, the highest on record. Of the total 100,330 tons were table potatoes. 28.250 tons seed potatoes, and 12,525 tons pig potatoes. Producing 81,761 tons of the total, Canterbury was the leading district, with Wellington. 17,965 tons, and Otago. 11.486 tons, next. Growers were asked to specify the varieties harvested, and returns to hand, covering 50 per cent, of the total area, showed that Aucklander Short Top was the most popular, yielding 21,511 tons, at 7.07 tons an acre. Dakotas produced 15,170 tons, at 6.98 tons an acre, and Arran Chief 11.436 tons, at 10.20 tons an acre, the latter being the highest yield of any variety to the acre. AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGES (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY. Sept. 23. (Received Sept. 23, at 11.30 p.m.) Prices were steady, with some rises, on the Stock Exchange to-day, but buyers were cautious. The Morning Sales.—Commonwealth Bonds. 4 per cent.. 1941, £lO2 Is 3d; 4 per cent., 1961. £107; Toohey's, £1 8s 3d;

Tooths, £2 9s 9ti; Bank of New South Wales, £26 ss; Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 15s 4Jd; cont, 16s 9d; Australian Iron and Steel (pref.), £1 5s 6d: Broken Hill Proprietary. £2 4s 3d; Colonial Sugar, £47 7s 6d. Additional Sales.—Broken Hill South £1 ss, Broken Hill Proprietary £2 4s 3d, Henry Jones £2 13s 9d, Australian Consolidated Industries £1 15s 6d, Anthony Hordern 13s 4d, Peters £1 Os 7Jd, Tooths £2 10s, Electrolytic Zinc £2 lis 6d, Mount Lyell £1 Bs, Carpenter £1 6s 6d, Woolworths 17s IOJd. British Tobacco £2 8s 9d. MELBOURNE, Sept. 23. Mount Morgan Bs, Goldsbrough, Mort £1 5s 6d, National Bank (£lO paid) £ll 12s. Scott Bros., produce merchants and commission agents, agents for the Dunedin Egg Suppliers' Association, report:— Eggs: The associated agents quote—Heavy Is 6d, standard Is 4d, medium Is 2d per dozen. Separator butter: Wanted to Is per lb. Honey, 7Jd to BJd per lb; 101 b tins, 8s 6d each; 51b tins, 5s each. Beeswax, Is to Is 3d per lb. Poultry. Good demand; hens, 2s to 2s 6d each; heavy breeds, 2s 6d to 3s 6d each; roosters, Is 6d to 2s each; cockerels, 2s 6d to 4s 6d each; ducks, 2s to 3s each; ducklings, up to 4s each; geese, 3s to 4s 6d each; goslings, 3s 6d to 5s each Turkeys: Gobblers, 8d to 9d per lb; hens, 7d to 8d per lb. Fat: Nominally 8s to 10s per cwt. Potatoes: Arran Chief, in over-supply, nominally £2 10s per ton; King Edwards, £4 per ton. Carrots. Is 6d to 2s per sugar bag. Parsnips: Slow; Is 6d to 2s per sugar bag. Swedes, Is 3d to Is 6d per sugar bag. Onions: New season's Canterburys, 16s per cwt. Whole fowl wheat 6s 3d to 6s 9d per bushel, sacks extra. New Zealand Cape barley, 6s per bushel, sacks extra. Australian Cape barley, 4s per bushel. Australian Chevalier, 4s 3d, s.i.. ex store. Under-grade wheat, to 21= per sack, s.i.' Chaff: Prime oaten sheaf, £6 10s per ton, ex truck; £7 10s, ex store, bags extra. Whole maize, 7s 6d per bushel. Ovster grit, 6s 6d per 1001 b bag. Straw: Wheaten and barley, 2s 9d per bale, ex store. Lucerne meal, 12s per 901 b bag. Lucerne chaff, 8s 6d per sack. Oats: Gartons, 4s 6d to 4s 9d per bushel, sacks extra. Free use of fowl crates oh application. We have in stock: Chick and pullet grit, new season's chickfood, fine and medium, bonemeal. Black Leaf " 40." etc. Prices