THE STUART WILSON CUP AWARD.
The Stuart Wilson Cup, which is competed for each year by the. competitors in the boys’ and girls’ agricultural clubs conducted in co-operation with the Department of Agriculture, has this year been awarded to L. Stevenson, of Hampden School Hampden, Otago. This competitor grew last season a crop of Arran Chief potatoes yielding at the rate of 22J tons per acre. This yield was secured at a cost of £1 per ton. As the average yield of potatoes for the district is not more than 7 tons per acre, his performance is very meritorious, and indicates the value of thorough cultivation in increasing crop-yields. The runner-up for the cup was Harry Betts, of Okaiawa, Taranaki, who grew a crop of mangolds yielding 132 tons per acre, at a cost of 2s. 5d. per ton. A photograph of this crop was reproduced m the August Journal. A fair average yield of mangolds in the Taranaki District is somewhere in the vicinity of 50 tons per acre.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXVII, Issue 4, 20 October 1923, Page 280
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170THE STUART WILSON CUP AWARD. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXVII, Issue 4, 20 October 1923, Page 280
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