LARGEST POTATO FARM
MILLIONS OF PACKETS OF CRISPS
Two English villages, whose names are recorded in William the Conqueror's Doomesday Book, today-sup-ply Britain's fighting forces Avith millions of packets of potato crisps.
They come from 2(0,000 tons of potatoes, grown on the world's larg-. est potato farm and producing about 125,000,000 packets of "crisps" a year. It is the biggest purely agricultural estate in England, covering an area 7*4 miles long by -l 1 miles wide of the best Lincolnshire heath and. fen I .and. It is served by a light railway, with 30 miles of track, 120 trucks and 5 Diesel engines, and it takes in the Avliole of the village of Nocton and most of Dunston.
All the potatoes from the estate, and the output of 80 other farms, are turned into "crisps" in. ten factories distributed throughout Great Britain. There are two other factories in Australia, one at Sydney and the other at Melbourne. The and Scottish factories use 40,000 tons of potatoes a year to produce 5,000,000 packets of "crisps" a week. They supply Britain's civil population as well as Service canteens and troopships.
A. special variety of potato, the Miuizen, was imported from the Netherlands and this strain, now quite acclimatised to Britain, still gives the best results.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 158, 22 September 1941, Page 2
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