A farmer m this district" (says the Patea PresM supplies some interesting figures relative to the comparative profits, of dairy farming. His figures,, taken over a number of years, go to show that an acre of potatoes will produce as much as eight good niilch cows. As it is exceptional .dairying country that will run a cow to 1£ acres, the figures mean that potato-growing is, twelve times, ais lucrative as dairying. .■'•■' • .
■For Influenza ta.ke Woods' Great Pep permint Cure. Never faila. la 6d, 2e 6d. . / . .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12816, 16 July 1912, Page 2
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86Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12816, 16 July 1912, Page 2
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