A MILLION ACRES OF POTATOES.
THE PREMIER'SS APPEAL. LONDON, March 22. Tha Prime Minister has issued the following appeal to farmers and others to. grow mdre potatoes :'■»— • I "I desire to impress aipon all farmers and: small growers the vital importance i of increasing to the utmost extent posjsible the supply of potatoes this year. There is no dVop tmder existing wfer 'conditions which can compare with it In (importance as a, food for either man or ibsast, and it would be quite impossible *to plant too many potatoes this spring. Last year I appealed- to the farmea* to gfqwtHore potatoes, iind he reftponaed by beiiting all Records. This year I ap'paal again, rtnd Avith even greater eaVnes'thiess,: ! hecau^e tho need is, twice as 'great If W© can get a million acres • under potatoes m Great Britain , this jyenr, the food situation be sjifo and farmers will toavo rendered immense, 'service to 'the^r, coiintry. The potato-, "rower is m the front liije of the light tvcainst the subnufl'ihe. Ho can defeat it if "he chooses, but victory depsnds on his adtion and exertions during the I next fe\w weeks." '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14607, 17 May 1918, Page 3
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189A MILLION ACRES OF POTATOES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14607, 17 May 1918, Page 3
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