COUNTRY LIFE Toughing and Potatoes
Do we really need a very much greater acreage of potatoes? en I read that " thousands of tons of dried Dutch peas (were) rocessed, dyed, flavoured, and canned in this country to sell as glish green peas," and on the same day hear an English arrner declare that he has a hundred and fifty tons of potatoes "which I cannot. sell," I am left wondering whether the cam- aign for an increased acreage of potatoes is not, like some other ood campaigns, a little unimaginative. The main direction of ricultural propaganda seems to have been to plough and crop s if the devil were behind you with a three-pronged fork, to regard potatoes as the salvation of all evils. Yet again again I hear farmers declare that the ploughing up and piling policy should be a two-year and not a one-year plan. uch land, newly ploughed, is in dreadful condition, and would better fallowed, sown with a green crop, cleared by sheep, and en ploughed and sown in autumn. Last year much harvest newly ploughed land was 5o per cent. rubbish. Again, armers despair of the zest with which they are ordered to lough up small isolated scraps of land, sometimes of two acres less, and feel certain of uneconomic results.
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