. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. to be a potato which willyet bo largely grown. It is of excellent quality. The other part of this field was Northern Stars,which were of outstanding merit. It is no ex-aggeration to isav that, as an all-round potato, innumbers, size, shape, and quality, the Star atthe present timo has no equal here. Fromsamples which wo tested we found this potato tobe a_ splendid cooker, and entirely free fromd isease. Other varieties which were seen were SuttonsRegents- Ninelyfold. Royal Kidneys, Monarch,Dalmeny Hero, Warrior, etc. A field respectively of Rec
. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. to be a potato which willyet bo largely grown. It is of excellent quality. The other part of this field was Northern Stars,which were of outstanding merit. It is no ex-aggeration to isav that, as an all-round potato, innumbers, size, shape, and quality, the Star atthe present timo has no equal here. Fromsamples which wo tested we found this potato tobe a_ splendid cooker, and entirely free fromd isease. Other varieties which were seen were SuttonsRegents- Ninelyfold. Royal Kidneys, Monarch,Dalmeny Hero, Warrior, etc. A field respectively of Recorder and King Ed-ward VII. showed good crofft. the tubers being! ofBne -ize, and, when tested, of excellent also saw several other fields of NorthernStars and found these equal in every respect toI he Real lot visited. The Messrs. Anderson in-form us that they will be lifting their crops fromnow onwards, and heartily invite anyone Inter-ested l pay them B visit, and, moreespecially,1«> see the Crops of Stars being lifle].. By Lupulin. — * The 1905 Crop. Whatever may bo the disadvantages of a toobounteous yield of hops, and it must be admittedthat they are not few, there may be some gloryto be associated with the present years crop, as,according to the official figures, it has establisheda record in the history of our industry. It istrue that in 1886 a heavier total weight (776,144cwt.) was harvested, but the area on which thatgreat quantity was grown stood at 70,127 acres,giving an average of only a little over 11 cwt. peracre. Again in 1855 we had 743,047 cwt. from57,567 acres, the average per acre being nearly13 cwt. But this year from only 48,967 acresour production is 695,943 cwt., our average run-ning up to the unprecedented figure of order to fully estimate the importance of thisfigure, some reference to the returns of the past10 years is desirable. From 1896 to 1905 inclu-sive our English growers have produced4,579,908 cwt. of hops, giving
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