GERMANY AND POTATOES.

Mataura Ensign, 2 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY AND POTATOES.

Germany is the greatest, potato [ (producer in the world. The total < rop ; of the tuber in the Kaiser's F-mpire; for the (last season is estimated atj fti oOO.iW tons. Of this (|Uantiry j .">.»XKMKK> tons were lost bv frost, rot-t ting, etc.. and to avoid this less, as J well as to diminish the importation of: concentrated feeding stulVs. the potato-! j drying industry is being developed. [There are at present in the empire t'(',(( | factories, capable of treating ilto- ■■ gether five to six million tons of fresh j potatoes, and the process is said to jgive . : >.r.hfae:ory results. The cost of ! a notate-drving olant is something like i L'3-"iO0. The bulk of the German pot.i- ---' to crop is utilised in the i'o]|n«in"; wav: \ -Fe-r* ' initial food LJ.OfiO.OCO " ton's : ista-di I'iciories. l.. r (H(XX) tons: ah'ohol j'>,o«M)(:<l >ons; feed factories. .i.:>( X).(:(>;> itons: <attle feeding, 10.001,(100 tons.