PLANT POTATOES.
OTAGO MERCHANT'S ADVICE. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") DUNEDIN, this day. According to a leading produce merchant, farmers in this province are letting a valuable opportunity slip by them in not planting an increased acreage of potatoes. Otago was at one time tne. leading potato-growing province m .New Zealand, said the merchant. Ihe demand still existed, and Otago could grow 100 per cent more potatoes than were cropped at present to distinct advantage. Merchants could not now fulfil shipping demands. . , Ten years ago this merchant advised a Taieri farmer to increase his area of potato crop from five to thirty acres. Only the other day the farmer expressed thanks to the merchant for the suggestion as, with but one exception, the potato crop had proved to be annually the best crop grown on his farm. "Potatoes provide a good return; in fact, a very profitable return," said the merchant, "and farmers who are struggling along against low prices could do no better than plant potatoes."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 4
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