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Show ' COLORADO SORTS 'i UTATSJ8TAT0CS Home-Grown Tubers Arc Often Repacked in Another State and Resold Here. r EUROPE PRODUCES YEARLY 2,000,000,000 BUSHELS Florida, Texas. Kansas and 'i Even Bermuda Ship the Staple to Salt Lake. ' Kugenc H. Grubb, the loading potato I expert of America, will be one of tbo ; principal speakers at the free lecture. Illustrate Il-lustrate J bv sterooptlcon views, at 5:3ii o'clock "Wednesday evening In the Commercial Com-mercial club rooms, under the auspices 1 of D. 13. Burloy general agent of the Oregon Short Line, on how to double the yield. Increase the soiling price and widen the market for the Utah-and Idaho i potato. Mr. Gnibb holds the same relative rela-tive position concerning the potato as Luther Burbank does In fruit and ilower culture- The other speakers will he J Leading Potato Expert. K. Wing, the greatest .expert on alfalfa and soils In America. The lecture, which Is free to every one, 5s to be the llrst of about 100 that will bo delivered free throughout Utah and Idaho during the next month ulong the main line and Important brunches of the Oregon Short Line,- by a dozen leading lead-ing experts on apple and potato growing and on the proper care and treatment of the soli. In addition to the names already al-ready published In The Tribune who will be on tho special train that lenves this city January. 20 have been jidded those of Professor Merrill and Professor Ball of the Utah State Agricultural college, nnd .1 Edward Taylor of the Stats Board of Horticulture. Colorado Eosorts TJtali Potatoes. "Idaho and Utah can grow not only more potatoes but better potatoes If proper attention Is given to the seed, cultivating, digging, sorting and storing, and especially to the .sorting." said Mr. Gnibb yesterday. "Colorado ships In car after carload of Idaho potatoes, unloads and resorts thenf. then reloads and ships them as Colorado jxHntocs, getting much higher prices for the same potatoes than does the Idaho man who grew them because be-cause the Colorado man knows how to sort and market potatoes and the Utah and Idaho men tlo not. "This we are going to try to teach on this special potato and orchard heating heat-ing train during tho coming month. If any man In Utah and Idaho today Complains Com-plains that he Is not making money raising potatoes It Is solely his own fault. Colorado men can take his potatoes po-tatoes and make plenty of money out of them, so why should not Idaho and Utah men make that extra, money? We are going to show them how to do It. "Potatoes form one-fifth of all the human hu-man food. Out of every flvo mouthfuls that 'go clown the human throat one Is of potato, to put the matter in another way. The potato crop of Europe la greater each year than the entire wheat crop of tho world. Germany alone raises 11.000,000.000 bushels of potatoes yearly, six times as much as docs the whole United States, and Germany Is onlv as largo as one of pur states, Texas, or only twice the size of Colorado "Great Britain, 'the tight little Isle,' raises as much as does the United States. The potato crop of Utah is only COffpcr cent of her home consumption. Utah, having some of tho finest potato land in the world, finer than anything in Germany Ger-many or England, should hang her hfod over this fact. Out of every ten pota toes eaten In this state four have to be shipped in- That Is a record to be ashamed of and should be corrected this year and kept good for every vear to come. Utah Imports Potatoes. "Utah has to ship in potatoes every year from as far away as Bermuda. Florida. Flor-ida. Texas. Kansas and even California some years send potatoes to Utah. In September and November Utah ships her potatoes to Texas and to Colorado, where tho Colorado man resorts them and then sells them, often right, hack to Utah at a higher price after paying freight both ways. "The average consumption of potatoes In America, when they can he had, Is four and one-half bushels per Inhabitant. But potatoes cannot always bo bought In tho United States, where the finest potatoes can be grown, so we as a na-, na-, tlon Import potatoes from Europe A great deal of our national boasting Is untrue, un-true, and wo do not 'feed the world.' not with overcrowded Europe shipping us such things as potatoes. "Between 2S5.000.000 and 290.000.000 bushels were raised In the United States In 100i, and only -200.000,000 In 1908 In 100S New York City Imported S.000.000 bushels of potatoes from abroad. These potatoes cost Now- York $1 per bushel, of which dollar cw York paid 71 cent for freight, sacks, duty and brokerage. This k-ft- only 29 cents for the raiser S AniM10 AtlanUc- utah can get that ?8.000,000 a year on potatoes alope out of one American city if Utah wants it and will learn how to raise and pack potatoes properlv, ".Tufa a sack of potatoes, all mixed in together, will not do. The Colorado man gets In to that New York gamo using Utah potatoes and no one can blamo him for doing so, seeing thaf tho Utah man doen nothing, "There are only seven states In America Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Oregon and Idaho, that raise , a surplus of potatoes. Utah is not In ' this list, and It is Utah's own fault. Some years California gets In the- list, i but not always. Utah never does, yet tho finest potato land in tho United States Is right on tho western slopes of Colorado and Idaho, with Utah a near second. The mountain 'alleys on the Pacific slope of the Rockies at an elevation eleva-tion of from 1000 to 7000 feet produce I the finest potatoes In tho world Po-1 Po-1 tatoes need altitude. Utah can raise her yearly income many millions If she want3 to, and all through the humblo potato." |