| Show I POTATO KING IS IN SALT LAKE Eugene Grubb Compares Tuber Production in the United States and Germany Much Inch talk tak has hI been made malc that Gormany Germany Gor- Gor many finally will 1 be starved out In Inthe Inthe inthe the present European J conflict hut but tOme to tome tome me that lint Is absurd In vc Jew of oC th the th fact Bet that Germany produces O bushels of ot potatoes potatoe annually says sn'S Eu Eugene eno Grubb of ot Carbond Carbondale lc Colo Cob known throughout hout the tho United States as Tho The Potato King He lic arrived Irrl ed In Salt SaIL Lake yest yesterday d from rota rom Germany German with wih a population of 65 six lx he continued produces times a as much pot potatoes toe ns as 1 are produced In tho tIre United States which han baa people Recent Recently I called the attention of at Secretary Wilson lson of the department of ot agriculture to the ho fact foet that Germany German which Is 1 no So larger than Texan produces producer six times an Its many potatoes potatoes po po- po- po as aa the United d States Yet und under r the tire pretense preten c of or lacking Jacking funds Yet the tho present administration has seen fit fi to reduce appropriations Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the department of agriculture when the administration should houll bo be devoting de every effort cHort toward encouraging increases In In- creases o ery In agricultural production This represents a bad bac state of or affairs to mo me From the standpoint of oC soil poll and cli- cli cl- cl mato suitable for tor raining raising the cr very best of oC potatoes Utah and Idaho may bo be considered the bann banner r states s But Rut the Industry Is lacking In development In Utah Uth an and Idaho One Ono crop of potatoes produces more mora revenue and more moro food tood to the tho aero acre than any other agricultural product kno known AH As the tho result relt of oC raising rais rals- In ing potatoes scientifically Aroostook county Me Ie and Lancaster Lancater count county Pa Pa arc aro tho lie richest agricultural counties Inthe in iii the tho United States Yet tet soil sol and climatic cli cl- cl matic conditions there are not as favorable favor favor- r or able for tor potatoes as In Utah and an I Idaho Mr Ir Grubb high highly praised tho the work of ot the Utah Utah Agricultural college an and he says the agricultural experimental I station at Jerome Ida has proved a 0 I great groat boon to tho the potato Industry great Mr Ir Grubb Is on his hil wa way from froni the Twin Pal Falls countrY countr Ida to Carbon- Carbon Carbondale dale dalo Colo Cob with wih a shipment of breedIn breeding breed breed- In trig ing sheep |
