Button's Seeds.

Manawatu Standard, Issue 7403, 19 September 1902, Page 3

Button's Seeds.

In the great advancement which !■ taking place in connection with all phases of agriculture no development has proved of such direct bene fit to the producer as the remarkable success achieved in the lmpro vement of root crops. In the early stages of the history of the mangel. Swede and turnip they were roots of which an enormous crop was. re quired to secure anything like a pro Stable harvest, and which with soil exhaustion and the necessity of util ising artificial manures could hardly pay with anything but a record harvest. Intelligently directed experiments continued from year to year have resulted in the development of species which are giants to the pigmies of but a few decades ago. Developed on the great experimental plots established by Martin Hope Sutton, the famous student of agricultural plants and the modern savi our of the farmer. These roots are being improved with every crop. Thanks to the advance in oversea communication New Zealand farmers can obtain seeds of the latest and most highly developed varieties direct from the Sutton experimental grounds at Reading, England, where the work of seed and root advancement so ably established by the late founder of the firm is carried on by his successors. The last season's crop on the Sutton experimental station has been perhaps the most favourable ever experienced by that firm, and owing to prodigious crops farmers even in this country will be able to procure Sutton's seeds at practically the same rate as that of inferior specimens. The opportunity will no doubt be taken full advantage of. It is interesting to note the wonderful crops obtained with the leading Sutton varieties. For instance the record crop of the prizewinner yellow globe mangel was 105 tons 17 cwt 2 qrs per acre, and the Gloucester County Cup was won by Mr Henry Bridgman, of Downend, with a crop of this great mangel of over eighty tons to the acre. The ordinary yellow globe is also a magnificent mangel, while the golden tankard mangel is said to be an ideal root for the dairy farmer. In Swedes the Suttons have been equally successful, their magnum bonum and crimson king varieties having swept the board as the premier Swede for three years. Sutton's Michaelmas yellow, purple-top turnip is admitted by leading Home agriculturalists and proved in numberless" experimental competitions to be the quickest growing hybrid in existence. This great variety has been largely successful in this colony. Two white turnips which are also remarkably prolific and of great size are the Imperial green globe and the Early sixweeks, and in company with Messrs Sutton's other productions are ovcrcramped in the field of agricultural plant development. The United Farmers' Co-op. Association are sole agents for Wellington province and have just landed 8 tanks of new season's mangels, Swedes and turnips. Prices and catalogue can be obtained an .application. Reference is'kindly permitted to S.~ W. Luxford, Esq., who has achieved remarkable success with Sutton's seeds last season.

The ordinary general meeting of the A. & P. Association will be held to-morrow. General show and routine business will be transacted.

General regret will be experienced by Jootballers throughout the Manawatu district, especially by those playing a i cw years back, on hearing oi the death ot the late Mr J. P. Glapperton. During his residence here as manager ot the' Union Bank oi Australia and subsequently, he was a staunch supporter of the game and the Palmerston N. Football Club in particular. He was patron and president oi the club tor several seasons and took a never taiiine interest in its welfare. He was a prominent figure at all cup matches played by the club's team in all weathers and generally he did his best to further the interests of the club, pis wife and family have the sincere sympathy of old and present adherents of the club in the un» timely affliction that has overtaken them.

The committee of the Palmerston North Amateur Athletic Club will meet at the Royal Hotel this evening to draw up a programme for the meeting on November 9th. They will also consider the question of seceding from the N.Z. League oi wheelmen, the local members of the club being particularly aggrieved at the treatment meted out to' Clark- «°\,. asv Woodroffe by the League. * * thS }? cnin Bt0» club» have seeeaea and it j« more than likely the Ipci «lßt vm follow the eximplr