CARTERS’ SELECTED 
A FORTUNE IN THE 
POTATO. 
A farmer at Tattershall, Lincoln, bought 
a quantity of the celebrated tubers. In 
unloading, one potato was dropped in the 
roadway, and was picked up by a farm 
labourer, who at once took it to the owner, 
well knowing its value. As a reward for his 
honesty the farmer gave the potato to the 
finder, telling him to plant it. This he did, 
and he has been offered ,£30 for the result 
in his little garden patch. — 
Gardeners' Chionicle. 
£2,240 PER TON. 
The homely potato would not at first sight 
appear to be a promising subject of romance, but 
the history of the Northern Star variety is 
almost as thrilling as a novel. We had a note i 
when it occurred of the fact that the extraordinary 
price of ^2,240 a ton had been paid for this 
potato. Each “ eye ” of these precious tubers 
was separately planted on a space of 2 acres 
3 roods. Each potato, according to a report now 
received, has produced about 144 times its own 
weight. — Westminster Gazette. 
Mr. Findlay, the raiser of this Potato, says “ Of all the Potatoes I have sent ou 
fine shape and quality, and the most disease-resisting and weather-defying variety I 
The value of any new commodity must naturally depend on the production, which in the case of this 
^1,600 per ton was given by eager purchasers. Owing to the scarcity and high price of the Northern 
some cultivators grew their crops from eyes raised in a greenhouse : we did not do so as we are of opinion t,l 
Carters’ Selected NORTHERN STAR POTATOES were all grown in the open gro 
any protection whatever. 
Whether or not the present values will be maintained we cannot say, but there is no doubt it is a £ 
flesh, and grows a robust haulm, so that the plants should be given plenty of room. Last season it was a co 
“IT CROPS WELL, COOKS V 
Price Is. per tuber; 5s. per lb.; 32s. 6d. per 7 lbs.; 62s. 6d. per 14 lbs. 
, 3 7, a ,8, & 97, High Holborn, London.— 1904, 
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