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Defeating Hitler on the Food Front: Ten tons of Eclipse seed potatoes were used to plant this 9-acre field at Mr D.F. Macauley's farm Beckingham Hall, Birch. The potatoes are here seen being lifted for clamping, the crop being over 15 tons to the acre. Mrs Florence Ivy Adkins picked up to 40 cwt (2 tons) in one normal working day. From East Anglian Daily Times, 1 November ... Cat1 Farming Cat2 War-->World War 2 Cat3 Birch-->People

Defeating Hitler on the Food Front: Ten tons of Eclipse seed potatoes were used to plant this 9-acre field at Mr D.F. Macauley's farm Beckingham Hall, Birch. The potatoes are here seen being lifted for clamping, the crop being over 15 tons to the acre.

Mrs Florence Ivy Adkins picked up to 40 cwt (2 tons) in one normal working day.

From East Anglian Daily Times, 1 November 1941
Photo 83 J.W.
Date: 1 November 1941      


Photo: Pat Adkins - J.W.
Image ID PBA_083_001
Category 1 Farming
Category 2 War-->World War 2
Category 3 Birch-->People


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