tons of potatoes. I have yet rather more than a ton to bag.

6564. That amounts to about four tons to the acre? - I have planted these potatoes in a moist piece of land for feet apart in the rows and two feet between the rows. It is ordinary York gum forest country. If you continue to grow four tons of potatoes to the acre it must pay you handsomely, because you are protected against the imported tuber. I certainly think it would be profitable to have a few acres in every year. I use about eight bags of super and a light dressing of stable manure, but not on all the land. Strangely enough where I had no manure I got just as good return. Actually where I put in plenty of manure they did not do quite so well, because I take it the manure was too heating. I have produced both Bismarcks and Delaware. I ploughed the land for them eight or nine inches deep and touched it once with the cultivator after I had planted them. I run them in the plough furrows in virgin land. Some of the tubers are better than others. For instance, some Beauty of Hebron were diseased, but I have Vermont and Early Rose looking best of all. The Bismarck, I think, were a bit late. This year I am planting 40 acres for the Government. If you get the seed at the right time, that is about the end of July, potato growing would be a certain thing. My seed cost me 17s per cwt. at Harris Bros. I am perfectly satisfied with this district, and I was glad to leave the South- West, and I would not go back there again, not if there were a team of bullocks here ready to drag me down there. No doubt some men are doing well down in the South-West, but those who have been there is nothing left for the rest. I myself could not find any land nearly as good as this in the whole of the South-West.

                     (The Witness Retired.)