100 years ago this week - Royal Melbourne Show

Local farmers were preparing their exhibits for the Royal Melbourne Show - 100 years ago this week - as this article from the Bunyip Free Press of September 10, 1914 tells us.

Bunyip Free Press September 10, 1914

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129629525

I wonder what 'up to date potatoes were?

Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show 1960

This is what the Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show used to be like.  My dad, Frank Rouse and my Uncle James Rouse (J. & F. Rouse Potato Growers, of Cora Lynn, telephone Iona 331 ) demonstrated  the washing and packing of potatoes, on machinery provided by Port Implements. You could buy the finished produce, 4 pounds of potatoes for 2 shillings and six pence. The spectators were very formerly dressed compared to today.

Show special advertisement in The Age September 23, 1960

That's Dad, leaning on the machine with his back towards the rollers.