LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 12 September 1917, Page 2

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

POTATO PLANTING. (To the Editor of "The Times.") . Sir—There is an old, as well as a true, Faying, that "God-helps those who help themselves,," anil if there were more amongst us-imbued with the helpful spirit and sturdy independence of your correspondent (Win. M.. McKcnzie), we would hcar'lc-s about the excessive cost of living in this Dominion oil ours. It was the custom in som? pnxts of the Old Country for every artisan and family man living in town to grow his own potatoes, and if Ms own ground was ■ insufficient for his reo.uivemcats lie hired a drill or two inthe potato paddock of a neighbouring . farmer, who did all the horse work when tending his own, while the townsman provided the seed, and hoed and dug the crop. It will not he-long before the potato becomes a luxury in these padti, the same as at Homo this <j?a?,on. where thr-y haw, b°cn f; ? h ,r ihreopwe }>■:( pound, or C ; ,-r'ioa. ':"k' iih'rei\.:?d and i-ost of I'vdiivatimi.nnd. i\x ,nj>'. jirolii for his liUnmv,' r.vl. r;s a '-on-' ■iocjueiice, he ii bqrar.iin- in Sjrht shy of the crop. Townsfolk should, therefore, Into Mr McKcnzio's hint awl plant and tend their own potatoes, Farmers-grow only for .their own U7B jnow.—lam,etc,, , . ;. * -- • iiPA'BMBB. - ,