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Many large farmers and small holders alike 

 specialise in the production of such crops as 

 Specialising POtatoes, celery, asparagus, 

 with Market cauliflower, rhubarb, and other 

 Garden Crops. i . • i • i_ . i 



plants, for which there is a 



great demand. There are large numbers of 

 growers who make no special effort to 

 produce either unusual quantities or 

 exceptional quality ; this is reserved for 

 the specialist. Thus, the potato grower 

 makes a special point of obtaining 

 seed from Scotland or some other distant 

 part of the country; indeed, he secures 

 the best seed he can find without regard to 

 expense; his crop is an annual experiment 

 which guides him in his future work; he spares 

 no effort to produce the requisite tilth in his 

 soil, and to supply it with abundance of food. 

 He recognises that if he would obtain a 

 lucrative crop his treatment of the soil must 

 be generous, and that good judgment and 

 liberal expenditure will be followed by a 

 commensurate return. 



The Education Committee of the County of 

 Wiltshire have shown that potatoes can be 

 grown upon suitable soil with much better 

 results than are believed to be possible. Thus, 

 while the average British yield is only 6 tons 



