POTATOE PRESERVING.
The San Francisco Commercial Herald says that during the past year or two an important industry has sprung up in that State in the way of preserving potatoes for a foreign market. A machine has been invented for pressing and preserving potatoes in such manner that they may be dried and kept for a number of years in any climate. No oxidization or fermentation takes place in the process ; they retain, to a great extent, their natural taste and original freshness. Shippings made to England during the past year have attracted attention, and the demand for California preserved potatoes in that country already exceeds the supply. The first shipment to Liverpool brought the sum of 100 dols per ton over all expense of shipment. Last year about 20 tons were shipped from San Francisco, which brought 45 English shillings per hundred weight, or at the rate of 3 dols per sack for green potatoes.
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Patea Mail, 8 March 1881, Page 4
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156POTATOE PRESERVING. Patea Mail, 8 March 1881, Page 4
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