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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4499, 4 December 1909, Page 4

Among the experiments to be con - ducted at one of the State experimental stations is the growing of potatoes on top of the soil, and under straw. This method has been tried with considerable success in the Eangitikei, the moist nature of the soil in that locality contributing to this novel method of culture.

Mr Watson, a farmer in the Winton district, has brought out with him from Home a motor plough, at a cost of about £3OO, which he hopes will enable him to cope with the great amount of work on the farm which is crowded into the spring months. Ho finds ho has a great deal of lan l to plough in the short while that the land is fit to work, and hopes by means of this plough to overtake it. We wish him every success in his plucky venture, and hope to hear that he is ploased with his puroha so.