Storage Problem
When members of Sheffield Federated Farmers’ and Young Farmers’ Club visited the property of Mr M. Baxter in their district this week. Mr Baxter showed them a three-acre area of group 1 Arran Banners which he said had given only a 50 per cent, strike.
The only reason that he could give for this happening, he said, was that the seed had been stacked in sacks seven high side-on, instead of vertically, as was his normal practice. He termed the outcome as a storage failure. The seed had been sown when the weather was damp and possibly too deep, but the fundamental reason for the failure appeared to be that the seed was too weak to germinate. Mr A. J. Ebert, an instructor in agriculture at the Department of Agriculture in Christchurch, * pointed out that the potato was a living seed and needed air about it all the time.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29994, 1 December 1962, Page 7
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