Some months ago a Canterbury farmer was given a potato brought over from Tasmania. It was of the Brown ell variety, a main cropper, and he planted two sets from it in his front garden. Lately he dug the tubers and there were 89 of them, all counted, and the total weight was 441 b.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)
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55Some months ago a Canterbury farmer was given a potato brought over from Tasmania. It was of the Brown ell variety, a main cropper, and he planted two sets from it in his front garden. Lately he dug the tubers and there were 89 of them, all counted, and the total weight was 441b. Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)
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