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All about potatoes

Sir, — The article, "Potatoes are forever" ( Nov. 21 ), brought back happy memories of raising my young family in the potato-growing district of Tasmania, the `Idaho' of Australia. On cool summer mornings, I used to take my three sons for spud-digging at a friend's farm and let them earn a little pocket-money. "Brownells" and "Bismarcks", varieties of Australia, are fresh in my memory, three decades later, as much as my friends, Merv, Max and Ken, the spud-farmers of the small country-town in northeastern Tasmania! They were no MBAs, but they knew their potatoes.

Subbiah Venkataraman,
Thiruvananthapuram

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