... Potato Growers ...

... PICKING POTATOES BOYS and girls from six schools in the Melton area are helping food production — and gaining pocketmoney —by picking potatoes on faims in the Belvoir district, To do the same job in the Melton area have come over 300 children from seven ...

... times_ For three 30ft. rows of early potatoes, 14 Ib. of seed should be ample and for the 6 rcws of main crop potatoes, a good way is to buy 7 Ib. each of 3 good varicties. As a rule a good sample of sced potatoes should give you about six sets to each ...

... MORE POTATOES Porato rQOT EELWORM is a grave menace to this most important cash crop on large areas of our best potato land, so farmers on eelworm-free land should bring potatoes into their rotations as a regular crop. Planting the highest possible acreage ...

... at this time of the year, but there may be some disease in the potatoes when they are lifted In consequence the keeping qualities of the crop will be weakened, and a shortage of potatoes is foreshadowed. Having their meals in the fields. and forsaking ...

... POTATOES IN THE RAIN UR article last week about Othc shortage of potato pickers was perhaps, in view of the weather which followed, not very encouraging to possible volunteers. It is worth recording, though, that pickers at Mr, J. R. Garratt's farm at ...

... POTATO POSTSCRIPT NEARLY 600,000 tons of potatoes were lost because of flooded ficlds at planting time early this year. This amount of potatoes would make a mound about twice the size of St. Paul’'s Cathedral, ST PAULS CATHE e = _— DRAL £ 561,000 2 TONS ...

... Potato Growers ...

... POTATO CONTEST Judged by Mr. W. Newcome (Scalford) and Mr. A. V. Sheardown (Knipton), the LW.AE.C. Farm Competitions for potatoes in the Melton area have resulted as follows:— et Best plot of potatoes, 2-8 acres: 1 R. E. E. Glenn, The Grange, Wymondham ...

... POTATOES STOLEN Police are investigating the theft of eight cwt. of potatoes. valued at £l2, from a field on the side of the road at Morcott, Rutland. The potatoes were owned by Mr. John Geoffrey Pridmore. ...

... Potato Salad Ingredients : 4 medium-sized potatoes, 2 rashers bacon, chopped, 1 medium-sized onion, sliced, 1 oz. flour, § pint vinegar, 1 pint water, 1 level teaspoon salt, pepper, 2-3 sticks celery, 2 dried eggs, reconstituted and hard-boiled. Method ...

... White Potatoes . ...