On Mon, 23 May 2005 11:00:19 +0200, martin wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 09:54:46 +0200, Tim Challenger
wrote:

On Fri, 20 May 2005 21:40:57 +0100, John Smith wrote:

Wrong place to ask I know ...but...
Yesterday I noticed a field of potatoes with the crop just emerging. However
unlike the traditional one row of potato plants per mound there were three
rows per wide mound.
Is this a new method ? What's the advantages?
Any advice welcome.
Thanks.

So the harvesting machine can be more efficient?
It can do four rows at once and only has to cross the field a quarter of
the times it normally would.

Machines replaced the annual potato picking school holiday of my
childhood and the child labour that was employed to do the job.

Sixpence a sack and a ride on the back of the tractor avoiding the PTO
shaft!