740 



Certification of Immune Potatoes. 



[Nov.^ 



crops that do not reach the high standard of 99.5 per cent, 

 purity, and in such cases the crop is inspected by the umpire. 

 The Ministry is confident that a study of this scheme will show 

 that every reliance may be placed on the value of the certificates 

 issued, and hopes that traders will restrict their dealings in 

 immune seed potatoes to these certified crops. 



Prior to 1921 the inspections were carried out free of charge 

 to the grower. The straitened conditions of the national 

 finances, however, caused the Treasury to issue an instruction 

 to the Ministry that all services such as this should only be 

 carried out on a self-supporting basis, and the Ministry was 

 compelled to intimate to growers that a charge would be made 

 in respect of all crops inspected this year. This charge was 

 fixed at the low figure of 2s. 6d. per acre, with a minimum 

 charge of 10s. It is satisfactory to relate, bearing in mind the 

 slump in the potato trade, that applications were received for 

 the inspection of no fewer than 6,170 acres, which is practically 

 the same as the area inspected in 1919, though it is, of course, 

 much below the figure for the " boom " year of 1920. 



Judging from the applications for inspection, the most 

 popular of the immune varieties are the following : — Kerr's 

 Pink, Great Scot, Majestic, Ally, Arran Comrade, and King 

 George. The complete list of varieties inspected is shown in 



the following 



table :- 









Variety. 



Acreage 

 Certi- 

 fied. 



Variety. 



Acreage 

 Certi- 

 fied. 



Variety. 



Acreage 

 Certi- 

 fied. 



Abundance and 



Abundance 



Types 

 Adirondack 



Ally 



America 

 Arran Comrade 



,. Rose 



Victory ... 

 Ashleaf (Sutton's) 

 Bishop ... 

 Burnhouse 



Beauty 

 Capt. Cook 



Climax 



Crusader 

 Dargill Early ... 



22 



i 



375I 

 6 



341 

 20 



m 



7f 

 281 



If 



2 

 i 

 3i 

 681 



Dominion 



Early Market... 



Early Pink 

 Champion . . 



Edzell Blue ... 



Flourball 



Golden Wonder 



Great Scot 



Heather Bounti- 

 ful 



Irish Chieftain 



Irish Queen ... 



Jersey Royal . . . 



K. of K. ^ ... 



Katie Glover ... 



Kerr's Pink ... 



King George ... 



k 



3 

 4 



m 



19| 

 1,378 



3 



12^ 



2f 

 3 



1,582 

 286i 



Langworthy ... 



Leinster Won- 

 der 



Lochar 



Majestic 



Mr. Bresse 



Nithsdale 



Rector 



Rhoderick Dhu 



Schoolmaster . . . 



Shamrock 



Snowdrop 



St. Malo 



Templar 



Tinwald Per- 

 fection 



White City ... 



n 



i 



144| 

 47.oi ■ 

 1 



2 



5 



I 

 1 



1 



12l| 



166| 

 2 



The exact figures are not yet available, but at the time of 

 writing, over 5,000 acres have been found to reach the very 



