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Six huge, potatoes- aggregating 20 pounds in• weight were brought to' Mivef city this morning, says (the Columbian, by Mr. A. L. Bates, of I, Matsqui Prairie and will be placed on exhibition in .the office of the Secretary of the Board of Trade, as an ^evidence of, wliat this fertile section1 of the Eraser Valley can produce. 'The tubers were all unusually large and one of them a-lonc weighed nearly four, pounds, some oXc he potatoes -are/ of the Maggie Murphy variety and the others were./known as Gem of Ar-istuke. lt;.Mr. Bates informed a representa tive that he had taken 18 tons of tatoes off one acre of land this year and the six which he-brought to the city.,were part of.ithht crop Several of the potatoes weighed ioily four pounds and after seeing the..samples which he brought -in thU morning no one was prepa ed-. to. .doubt ; him. The spuds in question were grown on high land and did better this year than those grown 04* tha low lying lands. A fe.a.turo of fthe crop was that the potatoes were' planted fully eight - ohes in the. soil. This being a .dry year flihey’ were fable'-.to get -More moisture than if shallow plan’ ?d. JVlr. William Bates, brother ■: f A: L. B'-.es*.\v.ho'; oeciu pie3* an ad- -joining faun*, plantei dhis potatoes on low lying land and tihe: results Wc/re*., not ;«o . satisfactory.■Mr. Bat os is ‘'only about threje juar.tsirs of ;a . mile from the Fra-seir branch; of ithe B. C. E. , the ; parent -station [being. Giffond. Since the (hew.line, has been placed in operation' he is -able to market his produce in New Westminster Vanvouver easily. His land has all been dyked and during the past six years that he has beenf farming in Matsqu* hd has reaped rich re-f rns for his labor.Mr.. Bates; has agreed to send in a large quantity of these potatoes to Publicity-.Commissioner Wade who will include .them with the New Westminster District exhibit att he fairs in Seattle and tother points in the United States. A sack lull wilt be* sent ou ton the,Great Northern 'exhibition car'which will travel through the States during the coming winter.
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Abbotsford Post
Abbotsford, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Oct 28, 1910
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