HIGH YIELD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 September 1932, Page 2

HIGH YIELD

BEST POTATO CROF SOUTHLAND BOY WINS DOMINION-WIDE COMPETITION. FIFTY GUINEA CUP A crop of ICing Edward potatoss giving an extraordinanly high- yield at the raio of 46 tor.s l'Oewt an acre. has v/oii for a SouLhland Imy tbis year's ehampionship among tho boys' and girls' agricultural clubs of.; the Dcminion. The winner 1g IViaotsr John llowling, of the Otatara Brhoal, Southhtiid. The agricultural club movement amoiig boys and girls was s^arted in Dunedin som6 16 y 'ai s ago, by Mr. W. Gtuart Wilson, now of Wellington, ar.d iheso comp-etitions are held annually for a 50-guinqa cup donated by him. ; Mr. Y/ilson, who is at present ir. Au'.kland, was notilled of tho resuli oi the eompeti.ion on Wo'dnesday bj Dr. C. J. Riakes, dirc ctor-generai oi agriculture, who makes the awards. Reniarkably fine rosults have been obj tainod in past years by the winners, one of whom was a girl. Experiencc ! in other countries shov/s that hoys land girls who ha\ii once adoptec ! seientific methods of agriculture nevn I drcp back to the old slipshod ways : Ccnipe itors may take up any typv ; oi i'arm work, and their work it • svporvised and finally reported on bj Ihe representative of th : Agriiulturai Eopariment in the dirtrict. The winner will havo the cup presented to him on a suitabls occasion and will also receive a gold m jdal anc pliotograph of the cup as permaneni ( mementos.