AMERICAN POTATO CROP.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8141, 28 November 1894, Page 1

AMERICAN POTATO CROP.

From reports coveting the United States in. d Canada, the Weekly Agricultiuiht hub compiled it'j special sunmnry on tlio potato crop. This points to an e\traoidmaiy shortage in Ameiica, and only fair yields abro-id. [t says in part : Poi'it,d"vj „i,» !V b hop r crop for the thild .sucw^ivo yevr, though not hucli an uttor failure tv the Department of Agriculture rot uius iudicitod, because those reports have not fully recognised the favorablo product and increased acieagein Northern Kugland and in Colorado, wliilo our repoiti up to September 22nd bhow that ii c potatoes are coming out better than wns anticipited. llolati/e to population the. supply is the smallest on record, Tlio total ippeirsto bo 165,000,000 bushels, or 20,000,000 bushels less than tho bonan/ii potato crop of '91. Tho average per acio for tho wholo country is tlio lowest in our history, only 50 bushels, a»ainst o7\ as the next lowest in the crop failure ot '1)0, bub tho total outturn is larger than last year because of tho gain in breadth devoted to potatoes. Canada's average is blightly greater than last year. Last year's crop was considerably bettor than the prese.it crop, but in the absence of definite data wo employ tho Dominion census of '91 as a basis of comparison, knowing that the '9J crop was u fair average. Our reports point to a total crop in Canada of under 40 million bubho'.s, ag.iinst '62 to o.j millions as tho average of good years.