POTATOES IN VICTORIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12911, 27 February 1906, Page 3

POTATOES IN VICTORIA.

SHORT CROP KXPKCTKD. The out'ook in respect to the potato ami oniou wops is for poor yields and high price?. Last year both potatoes and enions yielded badly, sod prices were abnormally Pofatciw reaches! £9 per ton. and onions went over £2O per ton. Odd lot* touched £26 atsd £2B per ton.

Thi* year neither the r»c.t.-»,i<i roj the *iai«» cr.p is H!ic3y s<» exec**! the atfgjcjs:**© «»utput «f Is*! »cj.v<»n. I'rJc-i* J«r htAh product* ,«e mjr;s. and il i-. *><■■! ■**, all improbable thai they wsjS £« tunc'h higfcr. The cohl weather said late irmi* ia atsil the exceedingly dry weaiicr vxjtai<nced during tbr la>\ tw» arnHth*'. ,a.<x<c.jat»U i"T the »hori«t£c in tbwe tw« impwtaii*. farm crop.*. if A ,-. a ,rj i»\h 4nritts; the next ten <3.iy.« w Winiffbt, si. will materially improve the potato crop. «*• pcci.\% in Lite «Ui>lrjrL*: b?i it t,-jJI J w ten 3ate io beneM th* vnivz cr-cp, a* iho early fields arc now being fc3J-vt»l«K3. *r»4 in two or three wedk*- ail objure worth, lifting will be baggwi. La#t y<wr the p»j. 3 f« c , ftt , cof cneil <3.&.93:2 fxrw. and yielded 92,872 { wn *. a a average of 1.98 tor.* per scjc. Thcrop, which far wjujc yeaa*- past h#* hven larger than that of Vienna, sw ;j, fair tjne. and brge iaiporijiiia:,* wer« made W thin State to nil local rcqt»ij«a3cirt*-. A 33 account.* sv ihn the Ta.nn.wiian «mp ihia ycir is sttflVring imm «srv,cghl. «v«i nwe lh.iu the Victor un. that Khcre will tk» a hcivy *hori;ap>. It i# p«jKvjble. *.f c<.ur*e. th.il 7-jjn may ycj the p;;sJtjon ' there «Imj. but tnta itt '}•« produce trade arv donbtini «4 t*ii«. \ tctoria and TAMnaaJa mv jhe 3w« an, portant p»taso>i;j«wit3g Sjajc.v «-.,f J}j«. Commoawealth. Is i* cridcnS. Ujcrvforn!, IhaJ if there arc short crop* in Vjctoii* 3 *' l TWmanb. the price of poi;al<-«» wiU j-a!® high all over the Oramonweajth. A wwi ago the mark?* <|»*it.iijinn* wcjc £-3 S* J*» J&5 per ton for j;«r.<3 «|Ca3atv. Y«»l«r4ay tlie price had ..4v.»?3ec<i ;«» £7 So £7 10*.