POTATOES RUNNING OUT.
TuLULlnif lalelv bun some correspondence in Tin. Farmi uon thisquestion, upon which an Ameiicaii eonteiuporarycxprcssop the following ideas .—. — That potatoes do run out is aver} common experience. The n.mual tendency of varieties I** to run out unless thcie is exceeding; great caie. I** must be remembered that it i- only M-ithin a comparatively short, time that there has been much care in keeping vmiebies up to standard 01 to improving 1 them. They were crown year after year, the seed %\as carelessly selected, and there was a very general carelessness about the cultivation of ciops. Any variety will deteriorate under that sort- of treatment, and that is one ivason why varieties of potatoes ha\c deteriorated. There i^ no leason, so far as "we know, why a potato, if propeily cared for, planted ri^hb in the right kind of soil, should not retain any feature of excellence that it may ever p -ssfss. We think thai the fault is not so much in the potato as it is in the grower.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 6
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173POTATOES RUNNING OUT. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 6
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