POTATO GROWING.
A correspondent of the “ Farm and Station Journal ” writes: “ How to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a problem unusually given by the landlord to his tenant. A South Canterbury farmer is trying to put the idea into practice not with grass but with potatoes. He declares that potato rows are much too wide
in heavy land, and that four could occupy the space of three, and he is trying to increase his yield by a quarter. In Southland drilling oats both ways and using two bushels of seed each time is being tried. Those who have tried the experiment declare that the yield in good land is increased fully twenty bushels to the acre.”
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Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 75, 9 January 1912, Page 4
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123POTATO GROWING. Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 75, 9 January 1912, Page 4
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