A NEW USE FOR BEER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13432, 25 March 1907, Page 8

A NEW USE FOR BEER.

The North Otago Times is responsible for the following: — "The record potato of this season was grown by Mr D. Boland, of Papakaio. It is an Up-to-Date, aud weighs 31b. lloz. The peculiarity of the growth of Mr Boland's potato crop is that when no-license was carried in the Oamaru district he made use of the unsold beer in his hotel as a soak for his seed potatoes and seed wheat. The product was the largest crop of potatoes and the finest yield of wheat on the Papakaio Plain. The mixture for the potatoes, we believe, was a shandy-gaff, the beer being mixed with lemonade, soda water, etc. Whatever may be said about beer as an invigomtor of the human body, it is evidently a tip-top fertiliser for potatoes and wheat, always assuming that it was the beer and not good cultivation that gave Mr Boland such fine yields. It \a not, however, part of the process tliaj; the individual' who sows 'the wheat and plants the potato should steep himself in the liquid."