TUAKAU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 159, 28 March 1916, Page 3

TUAKAU.

See also page 1 That potatoei can be successfully grown in luakau as well as in Pukekohe is evidenced by Mr J Glasgow's results. This year Mr Glasgow has soJcJ seventy tons of iirst grade potatoes trom seven and a-half acres, the average price being £8 P" t° n - He has ' . ol course, gone io for everything thoroughly and all labour-saving implements were used, an up-to-date two-row planter, a sprayer, and a digger being part of the equipment. The rows are thirtytour inches apart and the machine ia get to plant a potstD every thirteen inches. Mr Glasgow is a firm believer in having plenty of B pace between the sets, and attri bute* Ms freedom from blight a ureal deal to that idea. For une Uvi..' Ue spraying is certainly more c'V-'ti/' when thc P' anta are not lose and the returns have ceria.o'y been highly The manuio uatsd was two thirds bone ful one tmrd super, but of courstme gtcuru was in tirstelasM order and systematic cultivation was