THE PRICE OF PATOTOES.
' ■ ARISES THROUGH SCARCITY. r ,. ■Potatoes are now up -'to ,, 'JE9■'a toil'on the Wellington market. Canterbury are Belling at that figure, and Tasmaninn'aro at £».,:■ The high price;is attributed to the.poor crops in this country! and the dearth of imports from Tasmania., ,- .- ; The-red soil tubers from Tasmania' 'are not arriving in . very satisfactory condition.;' They are soft to feel, and go very "soggy/- , when cooked. The disease in the. Tasmanian crops has affected tlio quantity available;, as. well as the quality -pf. what '■ we get. ' Still it is notable' that;the imported article can be sold at £1 less'than the home-grown commodity. v The tasmanian potatoes are not :of •yorj' economical conformation, ..but some of the'"Canterbury lines could hardly te improved on in that respect. .. . TKero.does not appear to be any good prospect .of tho, country of New Zealand coming to tho ■ rescue. :■'. For several Beasons. the farmers have struggled to grow potato crops in the face of very disheartening results, and very discourag,io" conditions, and many of them tiro un■Jikely to ''again put any considerable area downuntil.there is reasonable chance of combating; the blight. ' ■•-..'.; ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 8
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186THE PRICE OF PATOTOES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 8
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