THE PRICE OF POTATOES.
. A RISE OR A FALL? • " Hold your potatoes,', for there is a risti commg, said one fiirmer to another at the *- a ( [m. e rsU)n sale yesterday. . , . cs >." ' ,e added to a Dojioton representative, a substantial rise is predicted, as the area under Cultivation ' has' riot' been rie'arlyarge as" last 'year. The quality is. : oxP ec ', . t°. be better;, as the blight, owing . , to the: dry- weather; did not 'have the sarite- ™ , s for reaching the tubers.' 1 --' . farmer was 'doubtless, thinking of the"., ♦if/'')r T 5°., r ? 1 ' 1 carries; tb'e spores, from • i! anected leaves down ( through the soil 1 the ? ld . . A South Island graiu merchant told our correspondent that he has; met. several rtierfarmers here who all predict a • He. hihlself, is of a different opinion, because the present season for pkitato grow- - i ; the.•-•best", ever 'experienced -• v* ithin his knowledge in Canterbury, Instead ot rising/ ho. considers that.tho price will fall, '' SS- iV® South 'Island -can ,almost • flood 'the'- " Worth within-a few months. . ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 145, 13 March 1908, Page 2
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172THE PRICE OF POTATOES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 145, 13 March 1908, Page 2
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