THE POTATO CROP

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 4

THE POTATO CROP

ACREAGE PLANTED IN CANTER-

BURY

Mr David Jones, president of the Farmers' Union, has received from the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Nosworthy) returns relating to the estimated area in potatoes in Canterbury and tyorth Otago (states the Press). Mr J. Kerrigan,. District Superintend* ent for Canterbury, in estimating the area planted, or to be planted, in Canterbury this season at "9111 acres, states: "It will be seen that the area is approximately 73 per cent of last year's acreage." The figures are as follows:

I Cheviot, 65 acres; Amuri, 51; Wai- ( para, 32; Ashley, 35; Oxford, 50; Kowai, 202; Rangiora, 350; Eyre, 490; Waimairi, 1000; Paparua, 1050; MalT^ nV 20°; Tawe ™, 31; Heathcote,. 100; Selwyn, 100; Springs, 370; Halswell, 298; Ellesmere, 507; Mount Herbert, 17; Wairewa, 8; Akaroa, 4; Ash--s??to^V 9, 50 '> Geraldine, 602; Levels, 614; Mackenzie, 85; Waimate, 1900. Total,-9111 acres. In Otago 332 acres are planted in Oamaru, as against 413 last season. Ihe decrease here is' stated by Mr W ?' I Sno l wrbalI > District 'Superintendent) to be due to labour and expenses and uncertainty of prices. The usual area of 40 acres has been planted in Kurow, and there are about 80 acres in Palmerston, the latter not being a potato-growing district. Many Palmerston farmers grow scarcely sufficient for their own requirements. The area this season is about the same as last year. i