POTATOES ON SILT
HASTINGS RESULTS K- ‘ " Claiming to possess 10 acres of pcssiojy ike nest- potato-growing land in the world, a settler of the jAakowhui i.istrict, near Hastings,, expects to isi.se an outstanding crop ol potatoes tins year. r.ighitvii months age, he said,, tlie piece of land, winch i.s close to the .Ng-aruroro Liver was covered with hiae'kb.eiiy and tussock, and early lastyear the blackberry was up to 6ft. liigli. Then came the floods, which oc.oied the area with a deep deposit <■! soil and silt. ■ A rew (months ago he worked t.lio land with a swamp tractor, which-root-ed up what was left of tin- blackberry bushes,- and lie was amazed at the depth of the new soil. He could get a burrow of 2ft. without reaching the old level of the land. His conviction that the land would produce an outstanding crop of potatoes followed the result he Inull obtained from planting a small patch last spring. The crop was amazing, lie said, some of the tubers being up to (din. through.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 220, 14 August 1939, Page 4
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172POTATOES ON SILT Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 220, 14 August 1939, Page 4
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